California Workers' Comp

2018 Average Days to Payment for Facility Bills
Mar 12, 2019
2018 Average Days to Payment for Facility Bills
Last year, for facility bills submitted through daisyBill payment was received, on average, in 17 days for the top 20 California workers’ comp claims administrators. U...
6 Minute How-To: Completing a CMS 1500 for California Workers’ Comp
Mar 8, 2019
6 Minute How-To: Completing a CMS 1500 for California Workers’ Comp
DaisyBill is all about making workers’ comp billing easier and more understandable. To that end, we launched a new video series aimed at mastering the ins and outs of this co...
SCIF IBR Disputes Are Further Proof of Provider Reimbursement Chaos
Mar 7, 2019
SCIF IBR Disputes Are Further Proof of Provider Reimbursement Chaos
We are again chronicling the reimbursement pandemonium inflicted on providers by the current California Second Review appeal and Independent Bill Review (IBR) processes.<...
2018 Average Days to Payment for Interpreter & Copy Services
Mar 5, 2019
2018 Average Days to Payment for Interpreter & Copy Services
Last year, more than 107,000 interpreter and copy service bills were processed by DaisyBill. The top 20 claims administrators took an average of 10 business days to process t...
Assistant at Surgery: All You Need to Know
Mar 4, 2019
Assistant at Surgery: All You Need to Know
Last week, we opened Pandora’s box on co-surgeons and team surgery. Notably left in the box was a discussion on assistant(s) at surgery. Typically this arises when physicians...
📬 Payer Responses: Guile, Waiting, and Crickets  🏏
Mar 1, 2019
📬 Payer Responses: Guile, Waiting, and Crickets 🏏
Today we report on the responses from Sedgwick, Liberty Mutual, York, and State Compensation Insurance Fund (SCIF), following our posts detailing their systematic underpaymen...
2018 Average Med-Legal Days to Pay
Feb 27, 2019
2018 Average Med-Legal Days to Pay
In 2018, for California medical-legal bills submitted using DaisyBill software, the average processing time is 13 business days to receive payment for the top 20 claims admin...
Co-Surgery vs. Team Surgery: All You Need to Know
Feb 26, 2019
Co-Surgery vs. Team Surgery: All You Need to Know
Surgery in workers’ compensation cases opens a Pandora’s box: reserves go up, nurse case managers get involved, and surgeons need to justify every detail of their billing to ...
2018 Average Days to Payment for Medical Treatment Bills
Feb 22, 2019
2018 Average Days to Payment for Medical Treatment Bills
In 2018, for California medical treatment bills submitted using DaisyBill software, the average processing time is 11 days for the top 20 claims administrators by volume. We’...
SCIF (CA) Incorrectly Paying 2018 Fee Schedule for 2019 DOS
Feb 20, 2019
SCIF (CA) Incorrectly Paying 2018 Fee Schedule for 2019 DOS
It’s SCIF’s turn. The California State Compensation Insurance Fund (SCIF) is also incorrectly reimbursing providers using the 2018 Physician Fee Schedule instead of the corre...
Reminder: Timely Bills Are Mandatory
Feb 14, 2019
Reminder: Timely Bills Are Mandatory
Late bills will not be paid. Period. Timely billing has been in effect in California workers’ compensation since January 1, 2017, but we still see providers missing th...
Maximus Confirms Using Second Review Appeals to Correct Billing Errors
Feb 12, 2019
Maximus Confirms Using Second Review Appeals to Correct Billing Errors
Correcting a coding error is as simple as submitting a Second Review appeal explaining the error. Last year, we discussed the convoluted process to correct billing err...