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Aug 7, 2024
CA DWC Defies Law, Botches WCIS
Without reliable data, no government can understand—let alone solve—the problems of any major system. Yet California’s Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) has openly defi...
Aug 6, 2024
Medata Harrasses CA Provider for Requesting IBR
Medata, which conducts bill review for the City of Los Angeles, just gave a master class in how claims administrators’ vendors bully providers who are simply trying to receiv...
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Aug 5, 2024
EK Health: Denying Care Helps Injured Workers
EK Health wants you to know that Utilization Review (UR) is not a soulless tool that payers use to deny injured workers the care recommended by their treating physicians....
Aug 1, 2024
Gallagher Bassett Shows MPNs Are a Painful Waste
A recent exchange between a provider and Gallagher Bassett offers a perfect example of why California’s Medical Provider Network (MPN) system is a pointless, convoluted, unna...
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Jul 31, 2024
Workers' Comp Exec: WCIRB "Skews Statistics"
Widely-respected industry journal Workers’ Comp Executive recently offered a powerful, public criticism of the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau (WCIRB).
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Jul 30, 2024
CA DWC & Maximus Rig IBR to Hand Sedgwick the Win
The California Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC), nominally responsible for enforcing workers’ comp laws, regulations, and rules for all parties involved, continues to ...
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Jul 26, 2024
Texas DWC Provider Boot Camp Starts Soon!
Texas providers treating injured workers, your state’s Division of Workers’ Compensation (TX DWC) has your back.The next round of the agency’s Provider Boot Cam...
Jul 25, 2024
CA Workers' Comp: Broken by Design?
In response to our recent report on new, burdensome regulatory changes proposed by California’s Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC), a California provider sent us an impa...
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Jul 24, 2024
CA DWC to Impose Costly New Reporting Burdens on Providers
California’s Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) is proposing major changes to the forms providers use for injured workers’ Progress Reports, the Doctors’ First Report of...
Jul 23, 2024
CrowdStrike Crash: Doctors Should Diversify Practice Tech
Question: What can healthcare providers learn from CrowdStrike’s recent calamitous software update and the less recent (but equally calamitous) cy...
Jul 22, 2024
daisyData Show e-Billing WORKS
Regular readers know that with painfully inadequate regulatory oversight in California, daisyNews has assumed the duty of highlighting the systemic issues that impede electro...
Jul 18, 2024
TX DWC to Providers: Tell Us What You Need
The Texas Division of Workers’ Compensation (TX DWC) states on its website, “We’ve made Texas workers’ comp better for doctors.” In our experience, these are more than...