California DWC
Sep 12, 2024
DWC's Failed WCIS Taints CHSWC Reports
With 49 cents spent on administrative expenses for every dollar spent on actual benefits (over absurdly stretched 7-year claim durations) California workers’ comp is in a fou...
Sep 5, 2024
Broken CA Workers' Comp Takes 7 Years to Close Claims
In California, closing an injured worker’s claim takes over twice as long as the national median. According to a report from the Workers’ Compensation Insurance...
Sep 4, 2024
The $10,000 Lie California Tells Injured Workers
Lie: California workers receive immediate and continued treatment (up to $10,000) when they file a work injury claim.Fact: California allows claims administrato...
Aug 22, 2024
daisyNews Top 10 Articles January-June 2024
What mattered most to workers’ comp providers, billers, and other industry pros in the first two quarters of 2024? Let’s take a look at our most-read articles from January th...
Aug 21, 2024
CCCSIG Adds Bogus "Expiration Date" to UR Approval
Let’s be absolutely clear: in California workers’ comp, treatment authorization does not expire. Once Utilization Review (UR) determines that treatment is authorized, there i...
Aug 13, 2024
Apricus Applies Massive, Invalid PPO Discount for Sedgwick
Specialty network vendor Apricus, acting on behalf of Third-Party Administrator (TPA) Sedgwick, recently applied an invalid Preferred Provider Organization (PPO) discount to ...
Aug 12, 2024
WCIRB Smoke & Mirrors Misinform CA Employers, Stakeholders
As daisyNews has long argued (and Workers’ Comp Executive recently pointed out), California has a major problem with how it assesses the challenges of workers' compensation: ...
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...
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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....
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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 ...
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...