MPN

California's MPN Cesspool: Impossible by Design?
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’...
Provider Alert: Coventry's MPN Site Is a Security Joke—and a Legal Disaster
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...
Report: CA DIR Director Hagen Resigning
Jun 10, 2025
Report: CA DIR Director Hagen Resigning
According to Workers’ Comp Executive, California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) Director Katrina Hagen is stepping down after five years. The Californ...
Sedgwick’s Shell Game: From Coventry to CareWorks, the Chicanery Continues
Apr 10, 2025
Sedgwick’s Shell Game: From Coventry to CareWorks, the Chicanery Continues
Sedgwick Claims Management Services, Inc., a Third-Party Administrator (TPA), appears to be throwing any available spaghetti at the wall to continue funneling e...
CA DWC MPN List Vanishes Again, Again & Again
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...
Sedgwick Stiffs CA Practice for Over $300,000
Oct 22, 2024
Sedgwick Stiffs CA Practice for Over $300,000
In California, claims administrators can siphon staggering amounts of revenue from practices using invalid Preferred Provider Organization (PPO) discounts—and doctors have no...
Over 2,500 CA MPNs Vanish (Again)
Oct 11, 2024
Over 2,500 CA MPNs Vanish (Again)
By now, we’ve grown accustomed to the California Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) utterly failing to manage the state’s Medical Provider Network (MPN) sy...
CA Employers: Broken Workers' Comp Costs 2X National Median
Sep 10, 2024
CA Employers: Broken Workers' Comp Costs 2X National Median
In California, the frictional administrative expenses of caring for an injured worker cost employers almost twice the national median.According to a report from the Wo...
Signature Networks Can't Hide Truth About PPOs
Aug 14, 2024
Signature Networks Can't Hide Truth About PPOs
Marketing material from Signature Networks Plus, an organization that peddles access to and membership in Medical Provider Networks (MPNs), crosses the line between awkward c...
Gallagher Bassett Shows MPNs Are a Painful Waste
Aug 1, 2024
Gallagher Bassett Shows MPNs Are a Painful Waste
A recent exchange between a provider and Gallagher Bassett offers a perfect example of why California’s Medical Provider Network (MPN) system is a pointless, convoluted, unna...
CA Workers' Comp: Broken by Design?
Jul 25, 2024
CA Workers' Comp: Broken by Design?
In response to our recent report on new, burdensome regulatory changes proposed by California’s Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC), a California provider sent us an impa...
Anthem's THM Network Closes, Stiffs Providers
Jun 28, 2024
Anthem's THM Network Closes, Stiffs Providers
Workers’ comp providers—in particular ancillary providers like physical therapists (PTs)—take note: if you have treated injured workers through Anthem’s Transparent Health Ma...