Most Recent Articles
Nov 18, 2019
City of Los Angeles Neglects Its Duty
The City of Los Angeles (LA) is a self-insured, self-administered employer. This means that the city assumes all of the responsibilities of a claims administrator to complian...
Nov 21, 2019
Hanover –> What the H*llover is Going On?
We have yet another tale of a payer flagrantly ignoring its duty to compliantly process provider bills for treatment of injured workers. This account of payer friction highli...
Jun 11, 2020
Beta Healthcare Group: How to Obtain Bill Status Updates
Recently DaisyBill erroneously re-published an old post regarding an issue with Alpha Fund (now known as Beta Healthcare Group) and LWP Claims Solution. In this previous 2015...
Sep 8, 2020
Clearinghouse Error - WorkCompEDI Misdirects Bills
Recently, one of the six clearinghouses hired by claims administrators to accept electronic workers’ comp bills suffered a technical error which resulted in the clearinghouse...
Sep 18, 2020
Sedgwick Fails the University of California
Today we are focusing on a self-insured employer, the University of California, and its third-party administrator, Sedgwick. Unfortunately, Sedgwick is not complying with Cal...
Oct 8, 2020
Dept of Labor Billing Utopia: e-Bills Processed in ONE Day
The new U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) electronic billing system is workers’ comp e-billing utopia. Earlier this year, the DOL replaced its designated clearinghouse wi...
Oct 12, 2020
WorkCompEDI: Clearinghouse Fails Claims Administrators
On Friday, DaisyBill took the unusual step of directly contacting dozens of California claims administrators. We wanted to enlist these organizations’ assistance to resolve a...
Oct 21, 2020
Broadspire Employers: Audit Complaint Filed With DWC
In a recent article, Broadspire Defies CA Law and Denies Appeals Sent by Providers, we described Broadspires’ success in defying California workers’ comp laws without consequ...
Nov 10, 2020
Data PROVES Electronic Billing for Workers' Comp Works
COVID-19 and our recent elections highlight the flaws, delays, and increasing creakiness of the US postal system. In 2020, as mail fails, electronic bill transmission offers ...
Nov 12, 2020
AIG: 11,000+ Violations and Counting
Earlier this year, AIG Claims, Inc. (AIG) made the switch to Carisk as its workers’ compensation electronic clearinghouse. However, and unfortunately, this change had no impa...
Jan 11, 2021
Department of Labor: 2021 Electronic Billing Nirvana Continues
Welcome to 2021 and improved workers’ compensation e-billing. Recent data shows that providers continue to benefit from the electronic billing upgrades that the Department of...
Feb 11, 2021
Payer Refuses to Send Electronic EORs Despite Clear Law
The California law regarding electronic explanations of review (EORs) is crystal clear and completely unambiguous -- at least to the vast majority of the workers’ comp commun...