medical-legal
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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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...
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 —...
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...
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...
Mar 17, 2023
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...
Mar 8, 2023
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 ...
Jan 30, 2023
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 ...
Jan 26, 2023
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...
Dec 14, 2022
WCF Falsely Demands QME Refund
A friendly reminder to all California Qualified Medical Evaluators (QMEs) and Agreed Medical Evaluators (AMEs): when a claims administrator demands a refund of reimbursement ...