California Workers' Comp

Oregon’s Comp State Fund to Pay $50M in Dividends

Employers nationwide are paying less for workers’ comp coverage, as rating bureaus and state authorities translate improved workplace safety into lower premium rates. But for...

Providers: Opt Out of CCMSI VCC Immediately

In most states, payers must respond to healthcare providers’ workers’ comp treatment bills with remittance advice in the form of an Explanation of Review/Benefits (EOR/EOB) t...

CA IBR Ordered Payers to Remit $2M+ in 2026 So Far

Independent Bill Review (IBR) cases in the first six months of 2026 resulted in payers being ordered to send additional reimbursements to California providers totaling...

CA: FRPs Are Legitimate Care, Not a Billing Scam

California healthcare providers are not to blame for the state’s grotesquely expensive and inefficient workers’ comp system. Yet, some commentators can’t help but push that n...

Join daisyBill at Elevate, CalUCA, and CPA Conferences in September 2026

daisyBill is hitting the road in September, sending our e-billing envoys to multiple conferences across California. Join us for these high-impact events, including:The...

CA: Providers Aren’t the Problem. The PR-2 Is.

In a recent post republished on WorkCompCentral, defense attorney David W. Stewart bemoans “defective” PR-2 reports from California physicians treating injured workers and th...

CA Confirms Nicole Richardson as DWC Director

After serving months as acting Administrative Director (AD) of the California Division of Workers’ Compensation (CA DWC), Nicole Richardson is now officially in charge of the...

Florida May Cut Comp Premium Rates, Again

In the latest example of workers’ comp success stories occurring in almost every state (except California), Florida is likely to cut employers’ workers’ comp premium rates in...

AIG Having “Exceptional” Year As CA Premiums Rise

American International Group, Inc. (AIG) is having what’s shaping up to be a banner year, with second-quarter results indicating an “exceptional” 2026 so far for the i...

Sedgwick Ignores IBR Ruling, Leaves Bill Underpaid

In our experience, Sedgwick Claims Management Services, Inc. isn’t known for consistently paying providers correctly or adhering to California payment laws and regulations. <...

Is the “Grand Bargain” of Workers’ Comp Broken?

For all the barriers to care and benefits injured workers face in highly litigious states like California, where providers are recoiling from the system, workers in other sta...

Sentry Insurance’s “IBR Chicken” Marathon

As regular daisyNews readers know, there’s an unfortunate quirk to California’s Independent Bill Review (IBR) process, in which providers ask the state to resolve disputes ov...