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Dr. Richard Dorsey, MD
over 8 years ago
Workers' Compensation
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California Medical Provider Networks: Another Aspect of SB 863 Needing Judicial Oversight
Another aspect of SB863 needing judicial oversight is the failure of the MPNs to assist patients in obtaining appointments with in-network treating psychiatrists, while denying payment to non-network psychiatrists as "self-procured". Instead...
California Workers' Compensation Institute
over 7 years ago
Workers' Compensation
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CWCI Tracks Use of Network Physicians in California Workers’ Comp and Associated Savings
Use of network physicians to manage California injured workers’ medical care rose from just over half of all claims prior to the introduction of medical provider networks (MPNs) to nearly 80 percent of all claims after MPNs were fully implemented...
Calif. WCAB Noteworthy Panel Decisions Reporter
over 9 years ago
Workers' Compensation
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California: Liability for Self-Procured Treatment Outside the Medical Provider Network
A California WCAB panel recently held that while liens may be disallowed for medical treatment procured outside the defendant's Medical Provider Network, the applicant himself is not personally liable to the lien claimants pursuant to Labor Code §...
California Workers' Compensation Institute
over 9 years ago
Workers' Compensation
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CWCI Finds Use of Network Physicians in California Workers’ Comp Continues to Grow
Treatment by network physicians is becoming increasingly prevalent in California workers’ compensation, with new data showing that nearly 80 percent of first-year physician-based outpatient medical services for 2010 California work injuries was...
Richard M. Jacobsmeyer
over 11 years ago
Workers' Compensation
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California W.C.A.B. Affirms Prior Valdez Decision
When it rains it pours... Having just issued an en banc decision yesterday on QME panel issues, the W.C.A.B. has just issued its 3rd Reconsideration decision in Valdez v Warehouse Demo Services . The original decision issued in April 2011 holding...
Calif. WCAB Noteworthy Panel Decisions Reporter
over 7 years ago
Workers' Compensation
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California: A Medical Provider Network Conundrum: The Second Opinion Process
In Bautista v. Arlon Graphics , 2015 Cal. Wrk. Comp. P.D. LEXIS --, a split panel WCAB affirmed the WCJ’s finding that the applicant machine operator with a 4/6/2014 admitted industrial injury to his ribs, pulmonary system, lumbar spine, and right...
David Bryan Leonard
over 9 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
CAAA 2013 Winter Convention Begins With a Focus on Medical Treatment Control, Expedited Hearings, and MPNs
By David Bryan Leonard, Esq. The 2013 California Applicant’s Attorney’s Association (CAAA) winter convention commenced January 24, 2013, in San Diego, California. This has been the first large CAAA convention since the implementation of...
California Workers' Compensation Institute
over 8 years ago
Workers' Compensation
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CWCI Schedules Online Seminar on New MPN Regs and Other Recent Regulatory Revisions
The California Workers’ Compensation Institute (CWCI) has scheduled an online seminar for Thursday, September 18 to educate workers’ compensation claims and medical professionals, attorneys and other members of the community on revised regulations...
Calif. WCAB Noteworthy Panel Decisions Reporter
over 6 years ago
Workers' Compensation
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California: Top 25 Noteworthy Panel Decisions (July through December 2016)
LexisNexis has selected some of the top “noteworthy” panel decisions issued by the California Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board during the period July through December 2016. The list features a number of decisions addressing medical...
Calif. WCAB Noteworthy Panel Decisions Reporter
over 7 years ago
Workers' Compensation
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California: New Medical Provider Network Regulations: It's a New Medical Treatment Paradigm
The 2004 workers’ compensation reform package of SB 899 brought about many changes as to how employers were required to provide medical treatment to injured workers. (Publisher’s Note: Citations link to lexis.com; bracketed citations link...
LexisNexis Workers' Comp Law Newsroom Staff
over 4 years ago
Workers' Compensation
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California: The RFA as well as the Accompanying Documentation Must Be Considered
Recently, a panel of commissioners with the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board (WCAB) addressed a medical treatment dispute where the question was what documentation had to be considered by the claims adjuster in reviewing a treatment request ...
Roger Rabb
over 7 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
A “Sea Change” in California: Regulatory Implementation of the SB 863 Reforms
AD says IMR gets 30 days to issue a decision after receipt of records, but doesn’t address Arredondo noteworthy panel decision Roger Rabb, J.D., Special Correspondent for the LexisNexis Workers’ Compensation eNewsletter In 2012, California...
Karen C. Yotis
over 8 years ago
Workers' Compensation
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California: MPN Treatment Requests Not Subject to UR/IMR
Karen C. Yotis, Esq., a Feature Resident Columnist for the LexisNexis Workers’ Compensation eNewsletter , provides insights into workplace issues and the nuts and bolts of the workers’ comp world. Is Hogenson Du(ing) an End Run Around Dubon...
California Compensation Cases Staff
over 7 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
Defendant Hired Applicant in His Capacity as Homeowner and Not as Part of His Rental Property Business: Cal. Comp. Cases January Advanced Postings (12/29/2015)
Here are the latest advanced postings for the January 2016 issue of Cal. Comp. Cases. Lexis.com and Lexis Advance subscribers can link to the case to read the complete headnotes and summaries. © Copyright 2016 LexisNexis. All rights reserved...
Calif. WCAB Noteworthy Panel Decisions Reporter
over 7 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
California: Stipulation to Treatment Outside a Medical Provider Network
In Shawl v. Steve’s Automotive , 2015 Cal. Wrk. Comp. P.D. LEXIS --, a split WCAB panel rescinded the WCJ’s decision and held that the applicant, who incurred an industrial injury to multiple body parts on 3/7/2001, was entitled to continue...
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