medical-legal
May 10, 2022
PPO Discounts STILL NOT Applicable to Med-Legal
It’s hard to believe we still have to write this — or is it? California claims administrators may not apply Preferred Provider Organization (PPO) reductions to physici...
Apr 27, 2022
CA Med-Legal How-To: Collect Penalty & Interest Payments
California physician evaluators, be advised: when claims administrators are late in paying for Medical-Legal services, penalty and interest payments apply. However, inadequat...
Apr 27, 2022
CA Med-Legal: $76 Million Owed For Record Review in First Year
It’s been just over a year since California adopted the new Medical-Legal Fee Schedule (MLFS). Effective April 1, 2021, the new MLFS represented the first incre...
Apr 21, 2022
ESIS Continues to Refuse Payment for Med-Legal Evaluations
Third-party claims administrator (TPA) ESIS systematically refuses to pay bills for Medical-Legal services. Full stop. Below, we list 9 Medical-Legal bills — some more...
Apr 19, 2022
Med-Legal IBR: Maximus Denies Documented Interpreter Reimbursement
In a perfect example of California’s failing Independent Bill Review (IBR) process, Maximus (California’s designated IBR organization) abandoned all semblance of lawfulness a...
Apr 7, 2022
CA Med-Legal: How to Appeal Unpaid AME Modifier -94
Regularly, California workers’ comp claims administrators incorrectly deny Medical-Legal Fee Schedule (MLFS) modifier -94 for Agreed Medical Evaluator (AME) services. In this...
Mar 31, 2022
Farmers Insurance: Winning "IBR Chicken”
California workers’ comp technically offers an appeals process for providers to dispute incorrect reimbursements. However, this appeals process actually encourages claims adm...
Mar 29, 2022
ESIS Unpaid Medical-Legal Bills
Alert: ESIS has failed to pay at least 7 bills for workers’ comp Medical-Legal services, despite acknowledging receipt of the bills in question. Further, attempting to...
Feb 10, 2022
CA Med-Legal: How to Bill for 10K+ Pages/Units of MLPRR
To help demystify California Medical-Legal record review billing code MLPRR, daisyBill published an MLPRR guide for California physician evaluators. Our ...
Feb 9, 2022
ESIS Refuses to Answer Phone or Pay Med-Legal Doctor
ESIS, a third-party administrator (TPA) for Ace American Insurance, is failing miserably in its legal duty to timely reimburse a California physician evaluator for Medical-Le...
Feb 7, 2022
CA Med-Legal Reports: REQUIRED Physician Verification
Last spring, California introduced a new Medical-Legal Fee Schedule (MLFS). Since April 2021, daisyBill clients have submitted over 80,000 medical-legal bills where the new M...
Feb 4, 2022
MLPRR: Costco/Helmsman Play Med-Legal IBR Chicken
Call it “IBR Chicken: MLPRR Edition.” Third-party claims administrator (TPA) Helmsman, acting on behalf of self-insured employer Costco, refused to reimburse a physici...