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Committee Passes Bill Allowing Addition of Social Workers to MPNs
04/07/2022
Medical provider networks in California could include licensed clinical social workers providing some services that normally would fall under the scope of practice of psychologists and psychiatrists under a bill moving through the Senate.
Sen. Anthony Portantino
The Senate Committee on
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DaisyBill Posts Claims Administrator Directory
04/05/2022
Workers compensation medical billing firm DaisyBill posted a directory of claims administrators on its website.
The directory includes contact information and hours of operations for work comp administrators. It also includes bill review contact information and web portals e-billing
Category: News
Bill Would Allow Governor to Name Agency to Manage CURES Database
04/01/2022
California lawmakers are considering legislation that would require Gov. Gavin Newsom to designate a new agency to manage the states prescription drug monitoring database.
The Department of Justice currently runs the Controlled Substances Utilization Review and Evaluation System. Assembly Bill
Category: News
Committees OK Extending COVID Measures, Closing Staffing 'Loophole'
03/31/2022
in the workplace.
Members of the Assembly Insurance Committee passed a bill that would extend until 2025 COVID-19 presumptions that were scheduled to sunset at the start of 2023. The Assembly Committee on Labor and Employment passed a bill that would similarly extend by two years the requirement
Category: News
Amendments Limit Scope of Staffing Firm Bill
03/30/2022
intended to apply to employees of contract workers performing labor outside of the employers usual course of business and is not indented to remove or modify any joint liability of the client employer and labor contractor the amended bill reads.
The previous version of the measure stated that while
Category: News
Assembly Committees Hear Comp Bills Wednesday
03/28/2022
employee safety.
Some employers with poor workers compensation risk are reclassifying their employees as temporary staffing employees or employees of labor contractors in order to hide the employee in the workers compensation coverage of the labor contractor the bill says. It is the intent of the
Category: News
Bill Would Extend Deadline for Outstanding SB 1160 Report
03/25/2022
A recently amended bill would give the California Division of Workers Compensation more time to complete a report analyzing the effect of exempting from prospective utilization review certain treatments provided in the first 30 days after an injury.
Assemblyman Miguel Santiago
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Committee Passes Bill to Expedite Liability Decisions, Penalize Unreasonable Denials
03/23/2022
Labor Public Employment and Retirement on Monday voted 4-1 to pass SB 1127 by Senate President Toni Atkins D-San Diego.
Proponents said the bill would ensure fair and judicious administration of certain claims particularly those filed by first responders. Opponents said the tighter time frame to
Category: News
Rand Finds Mixed Results in Assessment of COVID Presumption Legislation
03/09/2022
Rand Corp. said it is unable to provide recommendations about whether COVID-19 presumptions and other provisions in SB 1159 were the optimal response to the pandemic but some of its findings support the approach California lawmakers took with the 2020 bill.
If the goal of SB 1159 was to
Category: News
Jury Acquits Sim Hoffman on Lone Remaining Fraud Charge
03/04/2022
which doctors turn to work comp after being kicked out of Medicare are exactly what state lawmakers wanted to stop when they adopted AB 1244 in 2016.
AB 1244 requires the DWC to suspend providers who are convicted of fraud or kicked out of the Medicare or Medi-Cal systems. The bill also created a
Category: News
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