Utilization Review

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

NY vs CA: Treatment Authorization for Injured Workers

Every state has an obligation to ensure injured workers can access the care they need with as few roadblocks as possible. That means empowering doctors to furnish trea...