medical-legal

Payment Data: CA Med-Legal Bills Paid in < 10 Days

How quickly are you being paid for Medical-Legal evaluations? If it takes more than two weeks, it’s time for a change.Many physician evaluators use Medical-Legal manag...

CA Med-Legal Billing: 3 Tips to Win IBR Disputes

Statistically, California Medical-Legal evaluators are highly likely to prevail at Independent Bill Review (IBR) — but that doesn’t mean physician evaluators can’t benefit fr...

CA Med-Legal MDs: Don't Accept Denials or Adjustments - IBR Works!

California Medical-Legal physician evaluators, Independent Bill Review (IBR) is your friend.According to data from the Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC), 96% of ...

CA: Med-Legal Makes More Financial Sense Than Treatment

California physicians must come to terms with an uncomfortable fact: financially, a physician’s time is much better spent conducting Medical-Legal evaluations than actually t...

Sedgwick Ignores Medical-Legal Bills

Some claims administrators treat California workers’ comp laws and regulations as optional — and there may be no more egregious example than Sedgwick Claims Management Servic...

Gallagher Bassett Plays IBR Chicken With QME

Gallagher Bassett seemingly tried its hand at the game of IBR Chicken, forcing a Qualified Medical Evaluator (QME) to waste time, money, and resources on a needless dispute —...

Sedgwick Loses IBR (But Still Wins "IBR Chicken")

You can’t say we didn’t try.Earlier this month, we offered Third-Party Administrator (TPA) Sedgwick Claims Management Services, Inc. 100% free use of our daisyWizard f...

Sedgwick, Please Accept a Free Gift From daisyBill

Sedgwick Claims Management Services, daisyBill is here for you.We notice that you struggle mightily with correctly calculating reimbursements under California’s...

The Hartford Fails Med-Legal 101 (F-)

Workers’ comp insurer The Hartford has a few very basic things to learn about Medical-Legal evaluations in California. Namely, that initial evaluations generally prece...

LA County to QME/AMEs: Go Back to Snail Mail

The year is 2023, and the County of Los Angeles wants Medical-Legal physicians to do business like it’s 1978. The public employer insists that QMEs and AMEs must mail ...

Med-Legal IBR Data: A Bad Look for Sedgwick & CA

California appears to turn a willfully blind eye to what seems like an abuse of the Independent Bill Review (IBR) system for Medical-Legal disputes.Data ...

Forbes Fluff Distorts CA Workers' Comp Realities

The good folks at Forbes recently offered California doctors and injured workers a slap in the face, in the form of a political fantasy narrative thinly veiled as an objectiv...