Industry Insights
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Montgomery: Mandatory E-Billing Approaches | 08/12/2024 | |
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| By: Catherine Montgomery | |||
| State: NY | Segment: NORTH | 0 | |||
| New York's Workers’ Compensation Board is asking providers to be proactive and get ahead of a major impending change: Electronic billing will be mandatory by this time next year. ...Read More | |||
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Montgomery: DWC Defies Law, Botches WCIS | 08/08/2024 | |
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| By: Catherine Montgomery | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| Without reliable data, no government can understand — let alone solve — the problems of any major system. Yet California’s Division of Workers’ Compensation has openly defied California legislators and failed to gather vital workers’ comp data, in unabashed viol...Read More | |||
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Montgomery: DWC to Impose Costly New Reporting Burdens on Providers | 07/25/2024 | |
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| By: Catherine Montgomery | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| California’s Division of Workers’ Compensation is proposing major changes to the forms providers use for injured workers’ progress reports, the doctors’ first report of occupational injury, permanent and stationary reports, and requests for authorization. ...Read More | |||
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Moore: Copy and Paste Is Not File Documentation | 07/19/2024 | |
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| By: James Moore | |||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | |||
| Workers' comp file documentation became very critical in the post-pandemic area. One area for adjusters that seems to have become almost the norm is copy and pasting the same info from note to note. ...Read More | |||
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Moore: How Long Do Subcontractor Certs Last? | 07/17/2024 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | |||
| I have written often on the subject of subcontractor certs. Certs, also known as certificates of insurance, show that a contractor company has workers' compensation among other types of insurance. ...Read More | |||
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Moore: My Subrogation Mini-Rant for 2024 | 07/01/2024 | |
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| By: James Moore | |||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | |||
| I try not to rant about mistakes that I see made during our premium, mod and claims reviews, by my subro SOS mini-rant (please excuse) for 2024 covers subrogation. ...Read More | |||
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Montgomery: CCSF Sends Corrected Payments to Providers | 06/27/2024 | |
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| By: Catherine Montgomery | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| No one knows better than daisyBill how much payment abuse California workers’ comp providers endure. ...Read More | |||
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Montgomery: Athens Halts Processing 99 Cents Stores Bills | 06/21/2024 | |
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| By: Catherine Montgomery | |||
| State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0 | |||
| In April, 99 Cents Only Stores LLC declared bankruptcy, leaving the self-insured employer with no way to pay its third-party administrator, Athens Administrators, for handling its injured employees’ claims. ...Read More | |||
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Moore: Workers' Comp Budgeting After the Pandemic | 06/17/2024 | |
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| By: James Moore | |||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | |||
| One of the most difficult tasks for employers in the post-pandemic era requires a large amount of data analysis. Workers' comp budgeting adds more complexities to the mix. ...Read More | |||
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Moore: Class Code 5606: Who's the Boss? | 06/11/2024 | |
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| By: James Moore | |||
| State: NA | Segment: NATIONAL | 0 | |||
| Over the last decade, workers' comp class code 5606 has generated so many questions from insureds. ...Read More | |||
