California DWC

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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: ...

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...

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....

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 ...

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...

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...

LA Metro Transit Authority: 12,879 Audit Complaints Filed

The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transit Authority (LA Metro), a public self-insured employer, fails to fulfill one of its most basic (but essential) legal obligations to ...

DWC's Updated IBR Form - F Is for Fail

California’s Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) recently updated Form IBR-1, which providers use to request an Independent Bill Review (IBR)—but did so without publicizi...