Corvel
Nov 15, 2024
Walmart Bills: What Workers' Comp Providers Need to Know
Where should workers’ comp providers send their bills for treating Walmart employees?With Walmart employing over 1.6 million people in the US alone, the answer to that...
Nov 11, 2024
CA: USC Switches Workers' Comp TPA
The University of Southern California (USC), a self-insured employer, has switched the Third-Party Administrator (TPA) it uses to handle workers’ comp claims for its injured ...
Oct 30, 2024
Walmart to Change Clearinghouse & Bill Review
Currently, Walmart conducts its bill review internally and directs providers to send electronic bills (e-bills) to clearinghouse vendor Data Dimensions. However, starting...
May 20, 2024
CopperPoint Switches Bill Review
CopperPoint Mutual, a workers’ comp insurer that self-administers its claims, changed its bill review vendor to CorVel. The change is effective fo...
May 7, 2024
CorVel Corrects Reimbursement Errors
California workers’ comp fee schedules aren’t easy to keep up with. Subject to constant revision, the complex formulas for calculating correct reimbursement are more t...
Mar 1, 2024
CA: CorVel Increases PR-2 Payments Following daisyBill Webinar
Workers’ comp is messy. But it works much better when providers, claims admins, employers, and all other stakeholders understand that we’re in this mess togethe...
Jan 22, 2024
CorVel Adjuster & Attorney Ignore CA Law (Part 1)
Getting paid for treating injured workers can be highly challenging for providers. And sometimes, claims administrators and their representatives can be just plain mean. ...
Jan 22, 2024
CorVel Adjuster & Attorney Ignore CA Law (Part 2)
In the prior installment of this troubling story, a Corvel Senior WC Specialist became belligerent in response to a provider’s inquiry about payment for six bil...
Feb 3, 2022
Med-Legal MLPRR: CorVel Caps Units - Review EORs Carefully
California released an updated Medical-Legal Fee Schedule (MLFS) for workers’ compensation, effective April 1, 2021. Physicians had high hopes that the update, which introduc...
Mar 4, 2020
CorVel Disguises PPO Discounts
We’ve raised the alarm about Preferred Provider Organization (PPO) and Network discount contracts before. Supposedly, in exchange for more patients, these PPO and Network con...
Nov 26, 2019
Sally Beauty Holdings: Changes TPA and Claim Numbers
Sally Beauty Holdings no longer uses CorVel as its third-party administrator (TPA).Effective November 15, 2019, Broadspire administers all claims for Sally Beauty Hold...
Sep 20, 2019
Huntington Hospital & City of Beverly Hills Change TPAs
Attention providers: two California employers switched third-party administrators (TPAs).Huntington Hospital transferred claims from Sedgwick to AthensCity of B...