California DWC

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...

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...

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...

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.

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’...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...