California Workers' Comp
Jun 20, 2024
99¢ Stores: Athens Halts Processing Bills
In April of this year, 99 Cents Only Stores LLC declared bankruptcy, leaving the self-insured employer with no way to pay its Third-Party Administrator (TPA), Athens Administ...
Jun 19, 2024
CA MPNs Harm Employers, Injured Workers & Providers
California’s Medical Provider Network (MPN) system is an unmitigated failure, causing genuine harm to injured workers, health care providers, and employers. The Divisi...
Jun 18, 2024
AmTrust MPN Magic Denies Payment
Welcome to California workers’ comp, where claims administrators can use even the most demonstrably, objectively, provably untrue assertions to deny payment to a provider—wit...
Jun 17, 2024
CA DWC: Claims Administrators' IBR Wingman
In California, claims administrators can expect little or no repercussions for failing to comply with workers’ comp payment laws and regulations. Meanwhile, the Divisi...
Jun 13, 2024
For CA Interpreters, Appeals Pay More Than Bills
California interpreters, pay close attention!A new interpreter service began using daisyBill in February. Since then, the service has collected more revenue from Secon...
Jun 12, 2024
Sedgwick (and the DWC) Ignore Providers' Appeals
Sedgwick is running roughshod over California providers, in violation of state workers’ comp law. By failing to take substantive action, the Division of Workers’ Compe...
Jun 10, 2024
Sedgwick Denies/Ignores Hundreds of Appeals
Sedgwick's persistent failure to pay providers in accordance with state workers' comp fee schedules and its refusal to respond compliantly to providers’ appeals are glaring v...
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Jun 6, 2024
CA Payment Denial Rates 2024 vs 2023 - Top 20 Claims Administrators
California workers’ comp claims administrators are denying providers’ bills with increasing frequency in 2024 compared to 2023. The data below represent the 20 claims ...
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Jun 5, 2024
Gallagher Bassett Denies Bill, Spews Nonsense, Ignores Appeal
Welcome to California workers’ comp, where a claims administrator’s legal obligation to timely pay providers’ bills is more a matter of theory than practice.Safe from ...
Jun 4, 2024
CA Payment Denial Rates - Top 20 Claims Administrators
Bill data collected from daisyBill clients during the first four months of 2024 reveal claims administrators’ disturbing propensity to refuse payment for injured workers’ tre...
May 31, 2024
CA Appeals: Sutter Health Pays for Frankenreport
In our previous article, daisyNews detailed how Sutter Health authorized a California provider to create a strange combination of a Permanent and Stationary (P&S) report and ...
May 30, 2024
daisyData: CA e-EOR Most / Least Compliant Claims Admins
California mandates that all (repeat: all) workers’ comp claims administrators accept electronic bills from providers and respond to those e-bills with electronic Explanation...