California Workers' Comp

Crum & Forster Switches Bill Review Vendor

According to a notice received from Crum and Forster, the insurer is no longer using Corvel for processing medical bills.Effective 4/24/2019, Conduent will be handling...

Updates to California's Guidelines for the Medical Treatment Utilization Schedule (MTUS)

The California Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) recently made two important announcements concerning the Medical Treatment Utilization Schedule (MTUS).First, th...

One Beacon Switches Bill Review to Genex

Effective April 1, 2019, One Beacon Insurance Group changed the company that serves as its bill review to Genex.One Beacon employs Jopari as its clearinghouse. Electro...

8 Minute How-To: Multiple Procedure Payment Reduction (MPPR)

This short, free, and super-useful video demystifies Multiple Procedure Payment Reductions (MPPRs) for Physician and Non-Physician Practitioner Services in California.

SCIF to Correct Payment Errors

California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund (SCIF) stepped up and promised to fix all bills affected by its mistaken use of the 2018 Official Medical Fee Schedule. ...

Second Review Loopholes Hurt Providers

Our previous articles highlighted claims administrators’ processing speed for original bill submissions. Now, we turn our attention to average days to process Second Review a...

El Super Markets Replaces York Risk Services Group

daisyBill tracks California claims administrators and their respective clients to ensure that electronic bills are consistently routed to the correct payer for processing.

4 Minute How-To: Employer Responsibilities in California Workers' Comp

Watch the second installment in DaisyBill’s free educational video series on workers’ compensation billing.This short video explains the different ways that an employe...

2018 Average Days to Payment for Facility Bills

Last year, for facility bills submitted through daisyBill payment was received, on average, in 17 days for the top 20 California workers’ comp claims administrators. U...

6 Minute How-To: Completing a CMS 1500 for California Workers’ Comp

DaisyBill is all about making workers’ comp billing easier and more understandable. To that end, we launched a new video series aimed at mastering the ins and outs of this co...

SCIF IBR Disputes Are Further Proof of Provider Reimbursement Chaos

We are again chronicling the reimbursement pandemonium inflicted on providers by the current California Second Review appeal and Independent Bill Review (IBR) processes.<...

2018 Average Days to Payment for Interpreter & Copy Services

Last year, more than 107,000 interpreter and copy service bills were processed by DaisyBill. The top 20 claims administrators took an average of 10 business days to process t...