Effective August 20, 2022, the DFEC program will be implementing new utilization review (UR) for psychological exam and evaluation procedure codes. This change will impact professional, outpatient, and prompt pay bills.

Please refer to the DFEC Bulletin at this link for more information.

You may also contact our Call Center at the number listed below, where a Call Center representative will be happy to assist you.

Division of Federal Employees’ Compensation (DFEC): 1-844-493-1966

As of July 9, 2022, OWCP will implement enhancements to Surgical Package Authorization and Bill Processing for DFEC. Updates will be made to better reflect the providers involved in providing the surgical procedure.

Enhancements will include:

• Adding new Professional Type for Co-Surgeon for both online and paper authorization requests
• Allowing the same surgical package authorization request to cover all Professional Types
• Enhancing the authorization utilization and bill history screen to include Professional Type

You may also contact our Call Center at the number(s) listed below where a Call Center representative will be happy to assist you.

Division of Federal Employees' Compensation (DFEC) 1-844-493-1966