Document name

Hospitals and Other Treating Centres

Document number

PRO 55/2010

High Cost Procedures means medical aid provided in a hospital or treatment facility involving highly trained physicians and advanced technology (e.g., organ transplants).

POL 02/1997, Health Care Service Fees, authorizes the Chief Executive Officer to negotiate and administer fees for medical aid furnished by any health care professional.

1. The Workers’ Compensation Board (WCB) will reimburse any hospital or treatment facility for out-patient and in-patient services, as well as high cost procedures, in accordance with the annual rates set by Saskatchewan Ministry of Health’s Medical Services Branch (MSB), except where an alternate contract exists.
2. Services not established under the MSB rates will be paid according to the WCB rates negotiated for their discipline.
3. The WCB Finance Department will be responsible for ensuring that the most current rates set by the MSB are used. Rate adjustments will be applied retroactively to the effective date set by the MSB.
4. Only hospital services and procedures that are directly necessary in the treatment of a worker’s compensable injury will be paid for by the WCB.