MLFS

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...

Med-Legal Data: MLPRR Charges Continue to Climb

California Medical-Legal record review expenses soared into the wide blue yonder after the Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) updated the Medical Legal Fee...

Download: Med-Legal "Superbill"

Medical-Legal billing for California workers’ comp is like…well, anything in California workers’ comp: a big mess.It’s convoluted, and physicians get nearly zero help ...

MLFS Billing Tip: CA Med-Legal Deadlines Extended

As providers continue to grapple with COVID-19’s impact on healthcare systems, California Medical-Legal examiners (and workers’ comp claims administrators) are reminded: the ...

Med-Legal Reports: Always Include Page Count Verification!

California’s new Medical-Legal Fee Schedule (MLFS), effective from April 2021, brought with it new rules for reporting, billing, and payment. Among those rules: when submitti...

Med-Legal ML106: IBRs Leave No Doubt

If it wasn’t clear before, it certainly is now. Physicians should bill for supplemental Medical-Legal reports requested before April 1, 2021 with billing code ML106, regardle...

CA Med-Legal: ML200 Missed Appointment Payable

An Independent Bill Review (IBR) case affirmed one of the biggest changes to California’s Medical-Legal Fee Schedule (MLFS): an established reimbursement for missed Medical-L...

Download: Med-Legal Graphic Workflow (With Modifiers)

Effective April 1, 2021, the Division of Workers’ Compensation adopted an all-new Medical-Legal Fee Schedule, complete with new billing codes and modifiers. Like many things ...

2021 CA Med-Legal Billing Codes Pocket Guide

California has a new Medical-Legal Fee Schedule (MLFS), effective April 1. To help medical-legal evaluators and their staff navigate these (drastic) changes, we created a dow...

Medical-Legal Cheat Sheet for CA Workers' Comp

It’s official: California workers’ compensation has a new Medical-Legal Fee Schedule (MLFS). The updated MLFS is effective for dates of service on or after April 1, 20...

Med-Legal Misconceptions: 4 Ways NOT to Use Billing Code ML106

In California, physicians use code ML106 to bill for supplemental medical-legal examinations. However, what constitutes a supplemental medical-legal exam for billing purposes...