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Riverside Co May Eliminate Smoking to Reduce WC
12/17/2003
the Board of Supervisors is the Labor Code presumption of cancer and heart disease for law enforcement and fire personnel. Eliminating smoking is presumed to lower the county's work comp risks in part because of the presumption and also because of studies indicating that smokers get sick more often
Category: News
Coalition Takes on Schwarzenneger Bill Side by Side
12/05/2003
needs or agrees that all treatment may be provided without regard to the managed care provisions of the HCO contract.
4. Permits pre-designation from the HCO list of doctors.
5. Creates a presumption of correctness for the HCO treating physician as to medical treatment.
6. Permits unlimited
Category: News
Schwarzenegger/Maldonaldo Bill Detailed
11/20/2003
are expanded and made more liberal.
7. LC 4061 examinations will be limited solely to the compensability of an injury. 8. The primary treating physician presumption would be abolished in its entirety.
9. The definition of medical treatment would be radically redefined by amending Labor Code 4600 to
Category: News
Mushy Law Means CA Reform Savings Uncertain
11/04/2003
primary treating physician's presumption could be anywhere from 700 million to 4.5 billion in annual medical costs according to the testimony received by Garamendi.
Frank Neuhauser project director at the DATASurvey Research Center at the University of California Berkeley which performed an
Category: News
Risk Mgr Says Comp Reform Math Doesn't Add Up
10/14/2003
Other areas that according to the WCIRB might produce additional savings but the potential
amount cannot be calculated were
1 Primary Treating Physician Presumption
2 Spinal Surgeries
3 Physician Self- Referral of Outpatient
4 Expanded Carve-Outs
5 Fraud Investigation
Given the
Category: News
ACIC Says CA Reform Important First Step
10/06/2003
visits are limited to 24 per claim.
- The mandate for vocational rehabilitation is repealed.
- A fee schedule for outpatient surgery centers is created.
- New medical utilization guidelines are adopted.
- The presumption of correctness that was assigned to the
Category: News
CWCI Seminar Preparing for SB 228 & AB 227
09/30/2003
Displacement Benefit
-Administrative and Structural Changes -- changes in the Primary Treating Physician PTP presumption 2003 PTP reporting and regulatory revisions elimination of the IMC new penalties and medical lien filing fees the shift to 100 user funding
-Medical Billing Changes revised
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ACIC Comments on Pending CA Legislation
09/29/2003
include a pharmaceutical fee schedule limits for chiropractic and physical therapy visits to 24 per claim repeal of the mandate for vocational rehabilitation implementation of a fee schedule for outpatient surgery facilities new medical utilization guidelines repeal of the current presumption of
Category: News
Alarcon Writes Garamendi: WCIRB Ignores Savings
09/29/2003
1. We have attached a presumption of correctness to the utilization protocols. The structure of the presumption is virtually identical to the recently repealed treating physician's presumption of correctness TPPC. The fact that the statute provides that it is rebuttable and may be controverted by
Category: News
WCIRB Estimate on Savings Not What Hoped For
09/17/2003
nevertheless could be "significant" based on studies that
have documented differences in treatment costs of similar injuries between
group health and workers' compensation.
A repeal of the primary treating physician's presumption is estimated to yield one time savings of 2 billion and the replacement of
Category: News
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