Zoom Privacy, Security Issues May Affect Telehealth
Apr 8, 2020
Health care providers using (or considering) teleconferencing software Zoom, heed this important warning: serious security, privacy, and data protection issues reportedly pla...
DWC Will Hold Meeting on Controversial Medical-Legal Rule Proposals
Sep 26, 2018
In May of this year, California’s Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) announced proposed changes to the state Medical-Legal Fee Schedule (MLFS), and welcomed public comme...
Med-Legal Misconceptions: 4 Ways NOT to Use Billing Code ML106
Sep 21, 2018
In California, physicians use code ML106 to bill for supplemental medical-legal examinations. However, what constitutes a supplemental medical-legal exam for billing purposes...
No Response? What to Do When Claims Admin Ignores Your Bill
May 17, 2018
It happens far too often: providers treat an injured worker for a California employer, send the bill to the claims administrator, and then...nothing. Workers’ comp is ...
Medical-Legal Complexity Factors: Provider Requirements
May 9, 2018
Recently, a DaisyBill client faced unreasonable demands from a bill review regarding complexity factors for medical-legal billing code ML104. Fortunately, our client’s refusa...
Medical-Legal: When to Bill For Report Preparation
May 8, 2018
Medical-legal billing is a special kind of tricky. This unique subset of California workers’ comp has its own rules, its own fee schedule, and its own unique complicat...
Medical-Legal Fee Schedule: DWC Proposes New Amendments
May 4, 2018
The California Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) announced proposed amendments to the Medical-Legal Fee Schedule yesterday, May 3. The amendments would make sign...
Ultimate 2018 Workers’ Comp Reimbursement Cheat Sheet
Feb 2, 2018
Here it is: your complete, downloadable go-to resource for California workers’ comp reimbursement rates in 2018. This guide features the Official Medical Fee Schedule (OMFS) ...
Medical-Legal Cheat Sheet: Reimbursements
Jan 24, 2018
Billing for medical-legal services is one of the trickiest aspects of workers’ comp revenue management. Further complicating the process is the time-based nature of many medi...
Med-Legal Billing: How to Obtain Reimbursement for Diagnostic Tests
Jan 3, 2018
The conditions under which claims administrators must pay medical-legal doctors for diagnostic tests are specific and narrow. To ensure reimbursement, it’s important to know ...
Medical-Legal Billing Lacks Necessary Rules
Dec 8, 2017
When it comes to medical-legal billing, the workers’ comp field is missing something. For medical-legal bills, no rules govern the billing form used or the method used...
Are You Billing for Missed Work Comp Appointments?
Oct 13, 2017
You should be.A provider’s time may be their most valuable resource. The complexity of workers’ comp billing drains an absurd amount of that time, decreasing the retur...