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CWCI : Claim Frequency Up for State's Self-Insureds
07/22/2019
Workers compensation claim frequency increased for the second year in a row among private self-insured employers in California in 2018 bucking a decades-long national trend of decreasing claim rates.
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Claims per 100 employees climbed to 3.71 last year for private
Category: News
Legislation Would Give QMEs a Big Boost in Pay
07/15/2019
2578. During that period 1244 physicians discontinued their QME certification while only 398 new doctors were added to the list CWCI said.
Category: News
CompWest Eyes Larger Slice of State's WC Pie
05/22/2019
Insurance Commissioners.
CWCI said in its bulletin that 76 insurer groups which include 227 individual companies reported workers comp direct written premium in California last year. But most of statewide premium was concentrated among the two dozen largest groups which combined to account for 88.2
Category: News
Committee Passes Bill That Would Allow Penalties for Overturned UR Decisions
04/25/2019
Authorities said she was reviewing the bill as well. Borges said a recent report from the California Workers Compensation Institute highlighted some concerns employers have with the IMR process that was created by Senate Bill 863.
CWCI reported that nine out of 10 UR denials are upheld through IMR she
Category: News
Luna: Turning the Clock Back on State's Workers' Compensation System
04/24/2019
services set parameters for effective care and to reduce treatment costs.
By the numbers
The validation of the use of evidence-based medicine through UR has proven to be effective in California. The most recent study by the CWCI on independent medical review
Category: Industry Insights
CWCI : IMR Uphold Rate Steady as Volume Hits New High
04/23/2019
would be an IMR learning curve with the number of disputes going to the administrative process falling as providers and claims managers learn to differentiate requests for treatment that will be approved from those that will be denied or modified.
Not only is there no sign of a learning curve CWCI
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Committee Passes Bill Addressing MPN Shenanigans, Provider ID Rules
04/15/2019
also among the 10 most prolific generators of IMR decision letters in 2017 according to CWCI.
An analysis of SB 537 says these figures suggest that the persistently high volume of IMR decisions coming from a handful of providers indicates that medical disputes are not a widespread problem. But
Category: News
CWCI Elects 2019 Board of Directors
03/26/2019
Rose Barrett of the Berkshire Hathaway Group was re-elected as the chair of the California Workers Compensation Institute board of directors for 2019 during the Institutes annual meeting in Oakland last week.
Barrett has served on the CWCI board since 2014 and has been a member of the
Category: News
My first attempt to share - CWCI
03/22/2019
;times" "times new roman" serif; font-size large;"Yesterday I attended my first CWCI Meeting. The 55th meeting Annual Meeting of Members. What an experience.
Category: Blog
CWCI Explores Changing Tides of Comp System at Annual Meeting
03/22/2019
CWCI meeting Thursday suggested injured workers get most treatments their doctors recommend.
Utilization review approves 91 of medical treatment requests according to preliminary figures presented by Rena David senior vice president of research and operations for CWCI. With independent medical
Category: News
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