QME
Oct 3, 2024
Travelers Defies IBR, Shorts CA QME
How many ways can an insurer violate workers’ comp payment laws, regulations, and rules on a single bill?Travelers may have set the benchmark by refusing to correctly ...
May 8, 2024
Costco/Helmsman: Improper $5K Payment Denial
For California physicians, too much time, effort, and revenue are at stake to accept ludicrous payment denials for Medical-Legal evaluations. Unfortunately, California...
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 ...
Mar 14, 2024
Payment Data: CA Med-Legal Bills Paid in < 10 Days
How quickly are you being paid for Medical-Legal evaluations? If it takes more than two weeks, it’s time for a change.Many physician evaluators use Medical-Legal manag...
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...
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 ...
Dec 8, 2022
Med-Legal Data: IBR Is the QME/AME's Friend
California workers’ comp presents serious challenges to physicians — and Medical-Legal physicians are no exception. Despite a recently simplified Medical-Legal Fee Sch...
Dec 8, 2022
CA QME Calls Out Cannon Cochran "Abuse and Insults"
A California Qualified Medical Evaluator (QME) has had quite enough nonsensical reimbursement games from Cannon Cochran Management Services, Inc. (CCMSI).The Third-Par...
Nov 8, 2022
CA Med-Legal: Q&A for Confused Physicians
Recently, a physician evaluator reached out to us with questions regarding Medical-Legal services for California workers’ comp. Rather than share the answers with this physic...