IBR or Simpler Method Should Resolve Geographic Pricing Disputes, Stakeholders Say

Geographic pricing disputes should be resolved by independent bill review, but the California Division of Workers’ Compensation needs to establish new procedures or streamline existing methods to handle relatively small issues that can cause big problems and costly delays for carriers and providers, stakeholders said. “I think that DWC could do a better job of defining exactly what can and cannot go to IBR,” said Sue Honor-Vangerov, former DWC medical unit manager and current in-house counsel for IPM Medical Group. The topic surfaced late last month when bill review fi...