California DWC
Aug 19, 2025
CA DWC Ignores Law and Leaves Ortho Practice Unpaid
In California, when a provider pays $195 to request Independent Bill Review (IBR) to dispute an incorrect payment, the California Division of Workers’ Compensation (CA DWC) h...
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Aug 12, 2025
CA DWC: Routinely Violating IBR Law - Failing to Protect Doctors
Statewide records show that the California Division of Workers’ Compensation (CA DWC) routinely and brazenly violates a critical law legislators put in place to protect provi...
Aug 5, 2025
WCIRB’s Flawed Data Means Higher Premiums for CA Employers
Insurers control the narrative around California’s workers’ compensation—and it’s costing the state’s employers more every year.Annually, the Workers’ Compensation Ins...
Aug 4, 2025
Sedgwick’s Shell Game? 139 CA Employers Exposed
A California workers’ comp physician recently received eight checks totaling $110,858 from Careworks, a vendor affiliated with Third-Party Administrator (TPA) Sedgwick.
Jul 31, 2025
California's MPN Cesspool: Impossible by Design?
California’s Medical Provider Network (MPN) system is broken beyond repair, to the point where finding an MPN doctor is simply impossible for many injured workers. We’...
Jun 30, 2025
Sedgwick: Non-Compliant Bulk Payments From Careworks (Part 1)
In California, claims administrators—and apparently, Preferred Provider Organizations (PPOs)—are effectively free to create their own payment rules. A provider submitt...
Jun 24, 2025
CA OMFS Update: Physician Services (Q3 2025)
California’s Division of Workers’ Compensation (CA DWC) issued a third-quarter update to the Physician and Non-Physician Practitioner portion of the Official Medical Fee Sche...
Jun 19, 2025
DWC Data: Texas Delivers, California Dodges
The Texas Division of Workers’ Compensation (TX DWC) and the California Division of Workers’ Compensation (CA DWC) each hold a sacred public trust to oversee the treatment of...
Jun 17, 2025
CA Advances New Med-Legal Law. Will CA DWC Ignore It?
On June 2, the California Assembly unanimously passed Assembly Bill 1293, which aims to improve the state’s Medical-Legal process for resolving disputes between injure...
Jun 16, 2025
CA DWC Ignores IBR Law That Protects Doctors
California’s Division of Workers’ Compensation (CA DWC) is violating state law daily by failing to timely assign payment disputes to Independent Bill Review (IBR).Maxi...
Jun 10, 2025
Report: CA DIR Director Hagen Resigning
According to Workers’ Comp Executive, California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) Director Katrina Hagen is stepping down after five years. The Californ...
Jun 3, 2025
Workers’ Comp Has a Serious Data Problem
Anyone who’s been hurt at work (or treated an injured worker) knows that the workers' comp system is in crisis. To fix it, stakeholders need reliable, verifiable data—but tha...