DePaolo's World

Workers' compensation medicine is often critiqued against general health medicine, the implication that general health does things bet...

The Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine has published a study confirming the assumption that medical treatment in accordan...

There seems to be some steam building behind a movement that has taken too long to get going: advocacy based claims management. In short...

Applicant attorney Keith More asked the 800 or so attendees to our panel session at the California Applicant's Attorneys' Associatio...

On Friday I quoted blogger and principal of Health Strategy Associates, Joe Paduda, about physician's reticence to complete paperwo...

It makes sense that the cost of medical services is less in states with fee schedules, and that costs grow slower, than in states without fe...

What goes around comes around. TENS, or transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation, has been around as long as I can recall. It fell out of...

There's one glaring and obvious conclusion to be reached from the Workers' Compensation Research Institute's latest study f...

Photo is non-illustrative. Just me windsurfing big waves when I still could... In an old presentation I stated, "Workers' com...

The California Workers' Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau's latest annual report shows that the average medical benefit payment ...

In California we have lien claimants - vendors of goods or services not directly a party to a workers' compensation case but who nev...

"I don't need someone to advocate for me. I need someone to empower me." Becky Curtis was in a frightening roll over accide...

The ink isn't yet dry, but a bill introduced into the California legislature would unwind a portion of three year old SB 863 to exe...

The big focus at the California Workers' Compensation Institute 's annual meeting yesterday in Oakland, CA was on medical treatment....

The cardinal rule in workers' compensation has always been, control of the medical is control of the case. Those in work comp litigati...

I have a great idea - let's make the burden on physicians in the California workers' compensation system even greater by requiri...

The big news out of California this morning is that the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board sitting en banc reversed its earlier ruling...

An interesting thing happened at the Independent Medical Review dance - an EMPLOYER appealed a decision approving an injured workers treatm...