New ON-CALL Documents on Workers' Comp
[Posted 05/27/04]

ON-CALL documents #1922, “Workers’ Compensation Fraud,” and # 1932, “Medical Provider Networks,” have recently been added to CMA’s ON-CALL library. Document #1922 provides general information on California’s workers’ compensation laws as they affect physicians, and discusses how to identify, report, and respond to suspected cases of workers’ compensation fraud. Document #1932 discusses medical provider networks, as provided for under the recently enacted workers’ compensation reforms.

Existing ON-CALL documents have also been updated to reflect the recent changes to the state’s workers compensation system. The updated ON-CALL documents include:

• 1911, “Basics of the Workers’ Comp System”
• 1915, “Health Care Organizations”
• 1925, “Medical-Legal Services”
• 1945, “Qualified Medical Examiners”
• 1930, “Treating Physicians: Obligations & Reports”
• 1929, “Treating Physicians: Payment for Treatment”
• 1950, “Utilization Review”

Although the new workers’ compensation law was passed as an “urgency statute” and as such was effective immediately upon its signing, many of the regulations that will ultimately be used to implement the law have yet to be written. ON-CALL materials will be updated as necessary once the regulations have been drafted.

ON-CALL documents are available free to members at CMA's members-only website. Nonmembers can purchase documents for $2 per page from the CMA bookstore. For step-by-step instructions on how to access the ON-CALL library, click here.

Contact: CMA’s legal information line, 415/882-5144 or legalinfo@cmanet.org.