California Workers' Comp

DWC Data: Texas Delivers, California Dodges

The Texas Division of Workers’ Compensation (TX DWC) and the California Division of Workers’ Compensation (CA DWC) each hold a sacred public trust to oversee the treatment of...

CA Advances New Med-Legal Law. Will CA DWC Ignore It?

On June 2, the California Assembly unanimously passed Assembly Bill 1293, which aims to improve the state’s Medical-Legal process for resolving disputes between injure...

CA DWC Ignores IBR Law That Protects Doctors

California’s Division of Workers’ Compensation (CA DWC) is violating state law daily by failing to timely assign payment disputes to Independent Bill Review (IBR).Maxi...

Diabolical Discounts: CA Employers Are Getting Ripped Off

In California, doctors who treat injured workers are seeing their revenue collapse due to exploitative discount reimbursement schemes. California Senate Bill 863, whic...

Report: CA DIR Director Hagen Resigning

According to Workers’ Comp Executive, California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) Director Katrina Hagen is stepping down after five years. The Californ...

Liberty Mutual Relents After Doctor Shares daisyNews Article

Good things can happen when providers stand up for themselves.Recently, Liberty Mutual and its Third-Party Administrator (TPA), Helmsman, demanded a refund from a Cali...

Helmsman & Liberty Mutual Threaten CA Ortho With Collections

Insurer Liberty Mutual and its Third-Party Administrator (TPA), Helmsman Management Services LLC, need to brush up on California law regarding refunds.More importantly...

CA Employers: Your Premiums Fuel Private Equity Profits, Not Care

This week’s Diabolical Discount exposes MedRisk—the private equity-backed network infamous for siphoning off provider reimbursements while delivering zero care or services to...

Comp Is a Cash Cow—But CA Insurers Want Higher Rates?

The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau (WCIRB) just voted to ask California’s Insurance Commissioner to increase workers’ comp insurance rates by 11.2%.Tha...

Diabolical Discounts: Ralphs Pays MD $44 to Treat Injured Worker

Our weekly “Diabolical Discounts” features the most atrocious examples of the low reimbursements doctors receive for treating California’s injured workers.<...

Long Beach Pays CA Doctors Less Than Interpreters (and Plumbers)

Last week’s Diabolical Discounts revealed that the City of Long Beach paid a doctor just over $32 to treat an injured municipal employee. The article provoked outrage–and com...

Sedgwick Stiffs Doctors, County of LA Taxpayers Pick Up the Tab

Sedgwick Claims Management Services, Inc. has made it a business practice to defy California workers’ compensation laws, and public entities like the County of ...