Rulemaking docket for Minnesota Rules Chapter 5221 -- 2025

Exempt permanent rules relating to worker' compensation:  2025 adjustments to relative value fee schedule conversion factors and amendments to rules implementing the workers' compensation relative value fee schedule tables in Minnesota Rules, Chapter 5221

Under Minnesota Statutes § 176.136, subdivision 1a, the workers' compensation medical fee schedule relative value units must be updated according to the Medicare relative value tables at least once every three years, while the conversion factors must be adjusted annually by no more than the change in the statewide average weekly wage. These exempt rules update the relative value tables according to the 2025 Medicare relative value tables, amend the workers' compensation rules as necessary to implement the new relative value tables, and update the conversion factors for Oct. 1, 2025, through Sept. 30, 2026.

Published notices and comment periods

View the Notice of Incorporation by Reference of the July 2025 version of the relative value tables established by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services published in the State Register (page 85) July 28, 2025.

Additional information about how to access the July 2025 version of the relative value tables established by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is available on the Work comp:  Medical fee schedules – RBRVS webpage.

Pursuant to the exempt rule process in Minn. Stat. § 14.386, no Requeset for Comment or Notice of Intent to Adopt Rules has been published. However, the rules will be submitted to the Office of Administrative Hearings (OAH) for review.

Availability of rule draft(s) and Statement of Need and Reasonableness

A copy of the draft rule amendments will be made available prior to submitting to OAH.

Pursuant to the exempt rule process in Minn. Stat. § 14.386, a Statement of Need and Reasonableness is not required.

Requests of hearing; date and place of hearing

Because these are exempt rules, a hearing will not be held.

Timetable/status of the rule proceeding; agency determinations

The adopted rules will be published in the State Register no later than Oct. 1, 2025.

Date the rule was filed with the Secretary of State and the effective date of the rule as adopted

To be determined.

Contact person

Questions may be directed to:
Alexis Johnson, Office of General Counsel
Email:  dli.rules@state.mn.us
Phone:  651-284-5006