California Workers' Comp

Med-Legal MLPRR: CorVel Caps Units - Review EORs Carefully

California released an updated Medical-Legal Fee Schedule (MLFS) for workers’ compensation, effective April 1, 2021. Physicians had high hopes that the update, which introduc...

Athens Admin Pays $0.51 for Firefighter's Treatment

We do our best to give folks the benefit of the doubt here at daisyBill. However, we can only presume that Athens Administrators deemed the authorized treatment admini...

DWC Public Hearing: Copy Service Fee Schedule

Have thoughts to share with the Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) regarding proposed changes to the Copy Service Fee Schedule? Mark your calendar. The DWC will hold a p...

Med-Legal Emergency Regulations Extended

The California Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) recently announced that the proposed Qualified Medical Evaluator (QME) Emergency Regulation found in California Code of...

Anthem, CorCare Loot MD - Paying ONLY 5-6% OMFS

As employers vocally complain that their injured employees struggle to find doctors, California legislators allow Preferred Provider Organizations (PPOs) to reap huge profits...

Gallagher Bassett Bounces Foster Farms Check

You read that headline right.Doctors may need to pin a notice on the wall next to the cash register, as a warning that Gallagher Bassett, a third-party claims administ...

Gallagher Bassett (Zurich) Check Bounces

Gallagher Bassett is having a rough — and embarrassing — week. After bouncing a check for Foster Farms, the third-party claims administrator (TPA) bounced another, bigger che...

Med-Legal Data: MLPRR Charges Continue to Climb

California Medical-Legal record review expenses soared into the wide blue yonder after the Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) updated the Medical Legal Fee...

MLPRR: Record Review Guide for CA Med-Legal MDs

Millions of pages. Millions of dollars. Potentially serious consequences for non-compliance.Medical-Legal record review can be a big challenge for physician evaluators...

DWC Adopts New Telehealth Code List

On January 5, 2022, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released revisions to the list of Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Telehealth Codes. In ...

Berkshire Hathaway: DWC Targeted Audit Needed ASAP

As Berkshire Hathaway HomeState Companies (BHHC) persists in its failure to compliantly process thousands of valid Second Review appeals, the California Divisio...

Berkshire Hathaway Ignores THOUSANDS of Second Review Appeals (& CA Law)

Berkshire Hathaway Homestate Companies (BHHC) continues to fail to compliantly process valid Second Review appeals submitted by California doctors to dispute erroneously deni...