The purpose and effect of the proposed rule development is to amend the rule to adopt by reference the 2014 Edition of the Florida Workers’ Compensation Reimbursement Manual for Hospitals, replacing the 2006 Edition of the Florida Workers’ Compensation Reimbursement Manual for Hospitals in the existing rule. The 2014 Edition of the Florida Workers’ Compensation Reimbursement Manual will incorporate a fee schedule for certain hospital outpatient services within defined geographic areas in Florida utilizing current procedural terminology (CPT) line level charge data. The methodology for the incorporated fee schedule establishes criteria to evaluate 18 months of hospital outpatient bill data. In addition, the manual increases the current inpatient surgical and non-surgical per diem amounts by 16.5% and raises the current stop-loss threshold by 16.5%. The 2014 Edition of the Florida Workers’ Compensation Reimbursement Manual for Hospitals also makes technical changes to include a new manual format, and expanded table of contents and chapters organized by topic.