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2020-69 - WCAB Expands Hearing Options at the DOs
2020-68 - $2.6 Million Settlement Securing Unpaid Wages for 133 Bay Area Restaurant Workers
2020-67 - QME Exam in October Accepting Applications
2020-66 - Proposed Change to MTUS - Antiemetics
2020-65 - DIR Files Suits against Uber and Lyft for Systemic Wage Theft
2020-64 - Appt to Ethics Advisory Comm of DIR
2020-63 - Cal_OSHA Urges Employers to Follow the State’s Guidance on Protecting Workers from COVID-19
2020-61 - DIR Diles Suit - Gig-Economy Car Wash Misclassifys and Underpays Workers
2020-60 - DWC Posts Adjustments to Official Medical Fee Schedule (Hospital OP & ASC)
2020-59 - OSIP Adopts New Reporting Regulations Affecting Self-Insured Employers
2020-58 - DWC Posts Changes to OMFS (DMEPOS)
2020-57 - DWC Posts Changes to OMFS (Pathology and Lab Sections)
2020-56 - DWC Posts Proposed Medical-Legal Fee Schedule to the Forum
2020-55 - CA Adopts 1st Ntl Wrkplc Safety Stds for Nighttime Agric Workers
2020-54 - Adj to OMFS (Physician Services _ Non-Physician Practitioner Services)
2020-53 - Cal OSHA Reminds ERs - Prevent Heat Illness during Period of High Heat
2020-52 - Public Hearing - Proposed Updates to the MTUS
2020-49 - Addt'l Adjustments to OMFS(Hospital OP ASC)
2020-48 - DWC and WCAB Continue to Expand Hearing Schedule at the District Offices
2020-47 - DWC Posts Additional Adjustments to OMFS for Pathology and Clinical Laboratory (Additional COVID-19 Codes_Fees Added)
2020-46 - DWC Posts ACOEM’s Coronavirus COVID-19 Guideline on MTUS
2020-44 - Forms are updated to report Covid-19 injuries
2020-43 - Emergency Rulemaking Regs in Effect for Med-Legal Reporting in Response to COVID-19
2020-41 - DWC Posts Additional Adjustments to OMFS Including Expansion of Telehealth to Address COVID-19 Emergency
2020-39 - Adjustment to DMEPOS to Adopt Medicare Fee Schedule Increase Required by the CARES Act
2020-38 - DIR & CalOSHA Honor Workers' Memorial Day
2020-37 - DWC & WCAB Hearing Schedule at District Offices
2020-36 - April QME Test To Be Rescheduled
2020-35 - Proposed emergency Rule-Making for Med-Legal Reporting in Response to C-19
2020-31 - C-19 Adj to OMFS to encourage Telehealth for Txt 4/13/20
2020-29 - C-19 Updated Hearing and Filing Procedures 4/03/20
2020-26 - QME Evals 3/28/20
2020-23 - Posts Additional Adjustments to Official Medical Fee Schedule for Pathology and Clinical Laboratory (New C-19 Codes Added)
2020-21 - Guidance for Evals During Medical Emergency Period
2020-20 - WCAB Order on C-19
2020-18 - WCAB Filing and Hearing on C-19

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COVID-19 SMALL BUSINESS

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4/24/20 - Judge Issues Order Halting COVID Comp Expansions
4/24/20 - Business Groups Ask Newson to Tread Lightly on Compensation for COVID-19
4/20/20 - CA Virus Comp Costs Projected to Reach as High as $33.6B
4/20/20 - NCCI - Comp Premiums Likely to Dip as Employment Declines

Med-Legal Fee Schedule

12/9/20 - Medical-Legal Fee Schedule Written Comments
12/14/20 - Medical-Legal Fee Schedule Additional Comments
CSIMS Position Paper - Physician Reporting in the CA Workers' Compensation System
6/30/20 - Fee Schedule Forum Comments
6/5/20 - Proposed Fee Schedule
6/5/20 - Proposed Fee Schedule (CWCSA Comments)

Payers & PRoviders Newsletters

COVID-19 Presumption & Related

5/18/20 - Blue Shield Dominates Testing in California (Sac Bee)
5/18/20 - WCC - Presumption Costs and Considerations
5/18/20 - Alan Gurvey - Presumption: A Broader Perspective
5/18/20 - WCC - SB 1159 - Rebuttable Presumption Moves Forward
4/27/20 - WCC - WCIRB Covid-Related Rule Changes
4/27/20 - WCC - Covid Claims - Legislation-Litigation-Exec Order-Common Sense
4/20/20 - Stanford - C-19 Antibody in Santa Clara County
3/18/20 - WCAB EnBanc Waiver of Rules Practice & Procedure COVID-19

SB 1159 - COVID Benefits

6/29/20 - California Senate passes COVID Comp Bill
6/29/20 - SB 1159 Senate Floor Analyses

Politico PRO magazine

7/23/20 - Insider's Report: Policymaking During a Pandemic
5/5/20 - States weigh workers' comp for frontline workers against the cost
4/21/20 - Bipartisan deal reached on small business coronavirus relief
4/21/20 - Bay Area health officials issue new face covering mandate
4/21/20 - Trump revs up for a state-by-state fight over coronavirus shutdowns
4/21/20 - How California’s coastal-rural divide could provide lessons for the nation
4/21/20 - Facebook shuts down anti-quarantine protests at states' request
4/21/20 - Trump urged to add education expert to reopening task force
4/21/20 - Los Angeles study suggests Covid-19 more widespread than reported
4/21/20 - Tracking the virus may require 300,000 workers. We're nowhere close.
4/21/20 - California antibody studies suggest higher infection rates — but experts warn data could be flawed
4/21/20 - California Pro Workers' comp and circumstance — Small city stimulus — Facebook feed frenzy
4/21/20 - Calif labor, business groups in fierce battle over coronavirus workers' comp change
4/20/20 - California Pro Report
4/20/20 - CA Comp Costs Cover Page
3/11/20 - POLITICOPro SCAdvocates
3/10/20 - CA narrative casts a pall over East Coast efforts to elevate gig economy workers
2/13/20 - Opinion: A Conservative Judge Draws the Line
9/17/19 - Essential Guide to Calif Legislation
3/18/19 - Pro California Q&A: ASM Health Comm Chair Jim Wood
2/21/19 - 6 Legislative Issues Facing the 116th Congress
11/19/17 - TaxReformFINAL_V1_PoliticoHill_ALT1
12/21/16 - Date for Medicare's insolvency remains 2030
8/15/16 - How We Killed the Tea Party

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