The California Division of Workers’ Compensation’s draft update for California’s pharmaceutical fee schedule has become controversial and faces pushback from all sides. The proposal includes plans for a two-tier dispensing …
The Senate Labor, Public Employment and Retirement committee advanced SB 1159, authored by committee chair Senator Jerry Hill (D-San Mateo), and co-authored by Assembly Insurance Committee Chair Assemblyman Tom Daly …
The Office of Administrative Law approved emergency regulations to allow qualified medical evaluators (QMEs) to provide remote med-legal evaluations as long as certain conditions are met. The agency received pushback …
The workers’ comp community expressed “serious concerns” about several aspects of the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board’s proposal to update its rules of practice and procedure. The proposal generated well over …
A Division of Workers’ Compensation draft proposal to increase the base pay rate for copying workers’ comp records by 16.7% is being derided as too little of an increase by …
The major data analytics in California’s workers’ comp system continue to show improvement thanks to the resilience of the Baker Reforms, but industry insiders are anything but complacent. A new …
The Division of Workers’ Compensation floated possible changes to the state’s utilization review regulations to meet the demands of SB 1160 legislation. The proposal as it currently stands, however, has …
The Division of Workers’ Compensation’s controversial proposal to create a system of geographic pricing for medical services is back out for public comment. The latest version though is only slightly …