California Workers' Comp
Jan 31, 2025
CA: 2025 Physician Fee Schedule Increases Tomorrow!
California providers and staff, here’s an urgent Friday Task: Prepare for increased reimbursements for workers’ compensation physician services.Effective for dates of ...
Jan 27, 2025
CA DWC MPN List Vanishes Again, Again & Again
The California Division of Workers’ Compensation (CA DWC), as we’ve argued (and shown) repeatedly, has long been the poster child for bureaucratic ineptitude. Its handling of...
Jan 23, 2025
2025 CA Physician Fee Schedule Changes
California’s Division of Workers’ Compensation (CA DWC) issued an update to the Physician and Non-Physician Practitioner portion of the Official Medical Fee Schedule (OMFS) f...
Jan 22, 2025
CA OMFS: 2025 'WC' Report Billing Codes
California’s Division of Workers’ Compensation (CA DWC) recently announced updates to the Physician and Non-Physician Practitioner Services section of the Official Medical Fe...
Jan 17, 2025
CA State Fund: Superior Virtual Technology
Annually, daisyBill sends over 150,000 e-bills to the California State Compensation Insurance Fund (CA State Fund), a non-profit insurer that is practically perfect at e-bill...
Dec 18, 2024
CA: San Bernardino (Finally) Accepts e-Bills
Since 2012, in California, it has been mandatory for workers’ comp claims administrators to accept electronic bills (e-bills) from providers for the treatment of injured work...
Dec 17, 2024
Applied Underwriters: Appalling Treatment Denial
California’s authorization and Utilization Review (UR) system for workers’ comp treatment is profoundly broken—and injured workers are suffering as a result.For the la...
Dec 16, 2024
Sedgwick's Sloppy EDI Tech Goes Haywire
Sedgwick Claims Management, Inc. is daisyBill’s largest workers’ comp claims administrator, as measured by the volume of bills our clients send to the Third-Party Admi...
Nov 18, 2024
New! Networks Listed in Workers' Comp Directory
Since 2022, daisyBill has offered free public access to our Claims Administrator Directory, where providers and administrative staff can find critical information on insurers...
Oct 31, 2024
LA Metro Transit Authority: 4,955 Audit Complaints Filed
The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transit Authority (LA Metro) is making it harder for California doctors to treat its injured employees—and has given no indication of taki...
Oct 29, 2024
CA Alert: ESIS e-Bill Rejections (and What to Do)
Third-party administrator (TPA) ESIS is improperly rejecting valid e-bills from California providers, citing an inexplicable, seemingly random (and definitely non-compliant) ...
Oct 28, 2024
Paduda (Unintentionally) Blasts CA Workers' Comp
A recent edition of Joe Paduda’s Managed Care Matters newsletter absolutely nails the systemic issues that plague California workers’ comp. The only twist? Mr. Paduda wasn’t ...