medical-legal

Payers Deny 48% of CA Physician's Bills
Oct 9, 2024
Payers Deny 48% of CA Physician's Bills
Attention California providers: it is extremely difficult to obtain reimbursement when you treat or provide services to an injured worker, because the Division of Work...
Travelers Defies IBR, Shorts CA QME
Oct 3, 2024
Travelers Defies IBR, Shorts CA QME
How many ways can an insurer violate workers’ comp payment laws, regulations, and rules on a single bill?Travelers may have set the benchmark by refusing to correctly ...
CA DWC: Claims Administrators' IBR Wingman
Jun 17, 2024
CA DWC: Claims Administrators' IBR Wingman
In California, claims administrators can expect little or no repercussions for failing to comply with workers’ comp payment laws and regulations. Meanwhile, the Divisi...
Gallagher Bassett Denies Bill, Spews Nonsense, Ignores Appeal
Jun 5, 2024
Gallagher Bassett Denies Bill, Spews Nonsense, Ignores Appeal
Welcome to California workers’ comp, where a claims administrator’s legal obligation to timely pay providers’ bills is more a matter of theory than practice.Safe from ...
CA Provider Warning: P&S vs Med-Legal Reports
May 29, 2024
CA Provider Warning: P&S vs Med-Legal Reports
This is an essential report warning for California providers. A Permanent and Stationary (PR-4) report and a Medical-Legal evaluation report are not interchangeable. Before i...
CA Med-Legal: $93M+ for Record Review in 2023
Apr 4, 2024
CA Med-Legal: $93M+ for Record Review in 2023
With attorneys dumping tens of millions of pages of medical records on California Medical-Legal evaluators annually, daisyBill physicians conducted over $93 million worth of ...
CA Med-Legal Billing: 3 Tips to Win IBR Disputes
Feb 29, 2024
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!
Feb 28, 2024
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
Jan 30, 2024
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...
Gallagher Bassett Plays IBR Chicken With QME
May 16, 2023
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")
Apr 21, 2023
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
Apr 6, 2023
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...