Medical Provider Networks
Jul 31, 2025
California's MPN Cesspool: Impossible by Design?
California’s Medical Provider Network (MPN) system is broken beyond repair, to the point where finding an MPN doctor is simply impossible for many injured workers. We’...
Jul 29, 2025
Provider Alert: Coventry's MPN Site Is a Security Joke—and a Legal Disaster
Coventry is brazenly violating California law—and it’s impossible to tell whether it’s the result of astonishing incompetence or outright disregard for basic security and com...
Jun 13, 2025
Diabolical Discounts: CA Employers Are Getting Ripped Off
In California, doctors who treat injured workers are seeing their revenue collapse due to exploitative discount reimbursement schemes. California Senate Bill 863, whic...
Jan 27, 2025
CA DWC MPN List Vanishes Again, Again & Again
The California Division of Workers’ Compensation (CA DWC), as we’ve argued (and shown) repeatedly, has long been the poster child for bureaucratic ineptitude. Its handling of...
Aug 30, 2023
EK Health MPN Propaganda Reveals Ugly Truth
In a moment of self-serving honesty, EK Health acknowledged what providers already suspect: that MPNs are a cash-grab for “entities that provide physician network services” —...
Jun 8, 2023
How to Navigate CA's MPN Horror Show (and Get Paid)
As we’ve demonstrated repeatedly, California’s Medical Provider Network (MPN) system is a providers’ biggest obstacle to securing reimbursement for treating injured workers. ...
May 30, 2023
Doctor Calls MPN Bluff, Gets 100% OMFS
Recently, a daisyCollect client demonstrated how California providers can shake up — and potentially shake off — the bloated, crippling, and largely illusory Medical Provider...
May 24, 2023
ALERT: Disastrous MPN Bill May Be Revived
California State Assembly Bill 1278, which would grant network entities unprecedented control over Medical Provider Networks (MPNs), is on the shelf for now — but the fight f...
May 4, 2023
CA Committee Passes Disastrous AB 1278
California physicians, it’s time to take a stand.Last week, the Assembly's Insurance Committee endorsed Assembly Bill 1278, and forwarded it to the Appro...
Apr 25, 2023
CA: AB-1278 Gives Networks Control of Workers' Comp
California's Medical Provider Network (MPN) system is an absolute debacle, leaving workers' comp doctors and injured workers in perpetual uncertainty. The system fails to all...
Apr 19, 2023
CA Bill Strips Workers’ Choice of Doctor
California Assembly Bill 1278, if passed, will severely limit an injured worker’s choice of physician — and force physicians into low-paying networks.Currently, a Medi...
Apr 18, 2023
Sedgwick: Sham MPN Impedes Care?
If you need proof that California’s Medical Provider Network (MPN) system is catastrophically flawed, look no further than the case of the injured worker below.Third-P...