California Workers' Comp
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Aug 26, 2024
CA Interpreter Service DOUBLES Revenue With Second Review Appeals
For California workers’ comp providers, no billing strategy produces more revenue with less effort than consistently submitting Second Review appeals. This is especial...
Aug 15, 2024
WCIRB's Shocking Admission About Workers' Comp Data
The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau (WCIRB) is the leading data source for California legislators, regulators, and others. But in its 2024 “State of the System”...
Aug 14, 2024
Signature Networks Can't Hide Truth About PPOs
Marketing material from Signature Networks Plus, an organization that peddles access to and membership in Medical Provider Networks (MPNs), crosses the line between awkward c...
Aug 12, 2024
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: ...
Aug 8, 2024
daisyData: CA RFA & Utilization Review 2024 Data
In California, Utilization Review (UR) is the mandatory process by which claims administrators decide whether or not to approve treatment requests submitted by doctors treati...
Aug 7, 2024
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...
Aug 6, 2024
Medata Harrasses CA Provider for Requesting IBR
Medata, which conducts bill review for the City of Los Angeles, just gave a master class in how claims administrators’ vendors bully providers who are simply trying to receiv...
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Aug 5, 2024
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....
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Jul 31, 2024
Workers' Comp Exec: WCIRB "Skews Statistics"
Widely-respected industry journal Workers’ Comp Executive recently offered a powerful, public criticism of the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau (WCIRB).
Jul 25, 2024
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...
Jul 17, 2024
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 ...
Jul 16, 2024
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...