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Politics of health care with emphasis on California legislation including workers compensation and utilization review and federal legislation in Washington, DC

Friday, July 3, 2020

DWC Not Prepared to Honor the current QME Fee Schedule Stakeholder Agreement

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In general it appears that after three months of negotiations DWC has decided to go its own way and ignore whichever parts of the Stakeho...

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Wednesday, July 1, 2020

Tid-bits of Hypocrisy (the first in a series about proposed reform in workers comp)

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The first tid-bit of hypocrisy we'll discuss is paper size. Financial negotiations between Workers Compensation physicians represent...

Friday, April 10, 2020

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Covid 19: Is Marketing in Health Care taking Precedence over Safety? Are some institutions designated as "health-care" suppressin...

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Wednesday, March 25, 2020

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Corona Virus versus QMEs Our office, designated to do a Panel QME, ran into a plethora of unexpected complications on a recent case. Vari...

Wednesday, March 11, 2020

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Re AB 890 (Wood): Full Practice Authority for Nurse Practitioners AB 890, authored by Assemblyman Wood, DDS, is reportedly designed to...

Saturday, July 6, 2019

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Bad Faith Changes for Regulation 10451.1 have a good chance of passage When a defendant objects to a bill for a Medical-Legal expense it ...

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Thursday, May 9, 2019

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Reneging on AB 1107 (Chu) In its original form AB 1107 was supposed to give relief to injured workers who were being wrongly denied acce...

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Robert Weinmann: San Jose, California, United States; Writing in Neurology Today, Vol. 3 (8), August 2003, Dawn Antoline writes "Robert L. Weinmann, MD, has never been one to shy away from controversy. Whether he is writing muckraking editorials about HMOs that deny physician claims or ... billing practices ... he has committed himself to a life of activism. At the heart of his advocacy is a passionate regard for his patients -- and the ability of physicians to provide unfettered optimal care."

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