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Sedgwick Racks Up Another 11,947 Audit Complaints
Dec 19, 2023
Sedgwick Racks Up Another 11,947 Audit Complaints
Since October 2012, California law has required workers’ comp claims administrators to accept electronic bills (e-bills) from providers, and to respond to those e-bills with ...
CCSF: e-Billing Hero
Jan 17, 2024
CCSF: e-Billing Hero
When workers’ comp claims administrators fail to uphold their legal obligations to compliantly accept and respond to providers’ electronic bills (e-bills), daisyNews alerts t...
Myth Debunked: Payer "Doesn't Accept" e-Bills
Jan 19, 2024
Myth Debunked: Payer "Doesn't Accept" e-Bills
When non-client providers contact us about workers’ comp e-billing, they inevitably share frustrations based on certain e-billing myths. In this series, we address the most c...
Myth Debunked: e-Billing Through One Clearinghouse
Feb 5, 2024
Myth Debunked: e-Billing Through One Clearinghouse
Myth: A workers’ comp e-bill can be sent using any clearinghouse.Providers often report calling a claims administrator to ask about a missing paym...
Sedgwick Is Only Getting Worse
Jan 24, 2024
Sedgwick Is Only Getting Worse
When regulators allow payers to disregard workers’ compensation laws and regulations with impunity, providers cannot help but view the system as rigged against ...
Alert: CA State Fund e-Bills Erroneously Rejected
Feb 13, 2024
Alert: CA State Fund e-Bills Erroneously Rejected
Jopari, the clearinghouse utilized by California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund (SCIF), erroneously rejected providers’ electronic bills as “duplica...
Data: Fastest and Slowest Payers 2023
Feb 15, 2024
Data: Fastest and Slowest Payers 2023
If you treat injured workers, there’s no need to wait weeks or months while snail-mailed bills clog up your practice’s Accounts Receivable. Overall, 2023 data shows th...
How to Confirm Whether a Payer Accepts e-Bills for Workers' Comp
Feb 22, 2024
How to Confirm Whether a Payer Accepts e-Bills for Workers' Comp
Far too often, we hear from providers who were told that a given claims administrator “doesn’t accept” e-bills.Erroneously (or downright falsely; we can’t say for sure...
e-Billing: Unstoppable Delivery of Workers' Comp Bills
Mar 6, 2024
e-Billing: Unstoppable Delivery of Workers' Comp Bills
The days of hoping a workers’ comp e-bill will make it to the payer are over. Too often, providers receive notification that their e-bills were rejected by the payer o...
Change Cyberattack: The Dangers of Using A Single Clearinghouse
Mar 8, 2024
Change Cyberattack: The Dangers of Using A Single Clearinghouse
Change Healthcare, perhaps the largest electronic billing clearinghouse for private insurers in the nation, is reeling from the historic cyberattack that has crippled ...
daisyBill Takes Sedgwick Complaints to CA DWC Administrative Director
Mar 12, 2024
daisyBill Takes Sedgwick Complaints to CA DWC Administrative Director
It may be a new year, but it’s the same ol’ Sedgwick. However, the California Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) has indicated it may take a different (and hopefu...
Change Cyberattack: Availity to Return Providers' Bills
Mar 15, 2024
Change Cyberattack: Availity to Return Providers' Bills
Following the recent cyberattack on Change Healthcare, Availity, a national Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) and Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) clearinghouse vendor, has “te...