State Fund Soliciting Bids to Administer Investigator Network

By Greg Jones, Western Bureau ChiefHaving found success using physician networks to control medical costs, State Compensation Insurance Fund now wants to know if similar efficiencies can be achieved with a network of private claims investigators.State Fund is reviewing requests for proposals to develop a private investigator network. The carrier hopes to start enrolling -- communications director Gina Simons used the word "engaging" -- vendors to manage the company's investigations by the end of the first quarter of 2012.State Fund has a total of 63 full-time claims investigators throughou...