MPN

CA: Formal Request to Revoke American Zurich MPN

In October, daisyBill formally petitioned the California Division of Workers’ Compensation (CA DWC) to revoke approval for the Medical Provider Network (MPN) that American Zu...

CA DIR to Blow $1.25M On (Another) Questionable Comp Study

The California Division of Workers’ Compensation (CA DWC) is set to waste $1,250,000 in taxpayer dollars on a faulty “study” of non-existent data.The Department of Ins...

CA DWC's MPN List Disappears Yet Again

Leave it to the California Division of Workers’ Compensation (CA DWC) to fumble a relatively straightforward (but essential) task…over and over and over. The state age...

daisyData: CA Providers Paid at Fractions of Fee Schedule Rates

As daisyNews recently demonstrated with current, verifiable data:California’s workers’ comp fee schedule is one of the lowest nationwide, andData from ov...

CA Employers: Comp Premium Hike Based On Bad Data

While most states are lowering employers’ workers’ comp premiums, California is heading in the opposite direction. Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara approved a premium rate...

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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...