Opinion ID: 2637539
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: fee schedule

Text: ¶ 10 The trial tribunal awarded the full unpaid amount which Hospital sought finding: THAT the [Employer's] objection to payment is overruled. [Employer] shall pay [Hospital] the amount of $21,112.55 as full, final and complete payment per the Oklahoma Medical Fee Schedule. In the finding, the trial tribunal purports to have followed the Fee Schedule, yet the entire unpaid amount claimed was awarded. There are at least three possible explanations for this result: (1) the trial tribunal declined to follow the Fee Schedule despite the representation that he did; (2) the trial tribunal applied the Fee Schedule but somehow found that it did not reduce the amount due the Hospital; or (3) the trial tribunal followed the Fee Schedule but entered the wrong amount in the order. On remand, the trial tribunal shall address the apparent internal inconsistency and record the basis for its decision in its order awarding payment of medical expenses. CERTIORARI PREVIOUSLY GRANTED; OPINION OF COURT OF CIVIL APPEALS VACATED; ORDER OF WORKERS' COMPENSATION COURT VACATED; CAUSE REMANDED TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION COURT FOR PROCEEDINGS CONSISTENT WITH THIS OPINION. ¶ 11 WATT, C.J., OPALA, V.C.J., LAVENDER, HARGRAVE, SUMMERS, BOUDREAU, WINCHESTER, JJ., concur. ¶ 12 KAUGER, J., concurs in result.