MedRisk Paid Fine, but Continued Payment Practice

The Texas Division of Workers' Compensation fined a Pennsylvania health care network provider $17,500 last September for a practice that two weeks earlier had been authorized by state law.MedRisk Inc. of King of Prussia, Pa., was cited for failing to remit all of an insurers’ payment for a health care service to the medical provider, keeping a portion as a fee for its role as a middleman.In an order dated Sept. 12, Commissioner Rod Bordelon said an audit of a sample of 40 MedRisk bills turned up 20 violations of a Division of Workers’ Compensation rule that a health care provid...