Utilization Review
Jun 19, 2025
DWC Data: Texas Delivers, California Dodges
The Texas Division of Workers’ Compensation (TX DWC) and the California Division of Workers’ Compensation (CA DWC) each hold a sacred public trust to oversee the treatment of...
Jun 11, 2025
Sedgwick’s New Website: Shaky Stats Tout Provider Exploitation
Sedgwick Claims Management Services, Inc. has a new website. True to brand, the new site makes one thing abundantly clear: marketing provider abuse is easier th...
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...
Jun 3, 2025
Workers’ Comp Has a Serious Data Problem
Anyone who’s been hurt at work (or treated an injured worker) knows that the workers' comp system is in crisis. To fix it, stakeholders need reliable, verifiable data—but tha...
May 28, 2025
Insurance Execs Make Bank While Comp Crumbles
Business Insurance recently named the five highest-paid executives in the country for 2024. These executives’ compensation packages are, as expected, massive—an...
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Apr 30, 2025
RAND Gets $300K for UR Study—What's the ROI?
The California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) plans to address the state’s broken Utilization Review (UR) system—by paying frequent contract recipient RAND Corporat...
Apr 21, 2025
CHSWC Steps Up—Tackling PTSD & Wasteful "Studies"
Last week’s meeting of California’s Commission on Health and Safety and Workers’ Compensation (CHSWC) made something clear: the Commission is serious about fixing what’s brok...
Apr 15, 2025
An Open Letter to CHSWC re: UR Abuse (cc: Governor Newsom)
To the Members of the Commission on Health and Safety and Workers’ Compensation (CHSWC)CC: Governor Gavin NewsomRE: California’s Broken Utilization Review Syste...
Mar 13, 2025
Paduda's Predictions: An Insult to Workers’ Comp Doctors
Joe Paduda of Managed Care Matters is (understandably) worried about Americans losing their health insurance due to Republicans' cuts to healthcare spending—but his ar...
Mar 5, 2025
CA Farce Alert: $300K to Study Nonexistent UR Data
The California Division of Industrial Relations (DIR) has outdone itself in bureaucratic absurdity—proposing to spend $300,000 on a study without any data to study. In...
Jan 15, 2025
daisyNews 2024 Top 10 Articles
It’s been another year of fighting the good fight here at daisyNews. With 2024 in the rearview mirror, let’s look back at the most popular articles that informed, expl...
Dec 17, 2024
Applied Underwriters: Appalling Treatment Denial
California’s authorization and Utilization Review (UR) system for workers’ comp treatment is profoundly broken—and injured workers are suffering as a result.For the la...