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SB 3 Workers Compensation: Permanent Disability Benefits
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| ACIC Position: Support |
| Last ACIC Action: 05/08/2009 |
| Summary: SB 3 would change the amount and the process for paying the supplemental job displacement benefit for injuries occurring on or after Jan. 1, 2010. An employee whose injury causes a permanent partial disability would be eligible for the benefit. The supplemental job displacement benefit would be furnished in the form of a voucher in an amount up t... more |
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SB 145 Workers Compensation
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| ACIC Position: Oppose |
| Last ACIC Action: 08/30/2010 |
| Summary: ACIC is opposed to SB 145 because the bill would add statutory provisions that would foster unfair apportionment determinations.... more |
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AB 361 Workers Compensation: Treatment Authorization
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| ACIC Position: Oppose |
| Last ACIC Action: 09/22/2009 |
| Summary: AB 361 prohibits an insurer that authorizes medical treatment from rescinding or modifying the authorization after the medical treatment has been provided pursuant to the authorization. The bill specifies that if the authorized medical treatment consists of a series of treatments or services, the insurer may rescind or modify the authorization onl... more |
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SB 403 Workers Compensation: Lien Claims
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| ACIC Position: Support |
| Last ACIC Action: 04/15/2009 |
| Summary: SB 403 would prohibit a lien claim for medical treatment or for medical-legal expenses from being filed more than one year from the date the health care provider, or the health care provider’s agent, was sent an explanation of benefits or an explanation of review paying or objecting to a bill in whole or in part. ... more |
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AB 615 Workers Compensation
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| ACIC Position: Support |
| Last ACIC Action: 04/30/2009 |
| Summary: AB 615 would authorize the administrative director of the Division of Workers Compensation to adopt regulations that define “first-aid” in a manner that is consistent with the OSHA definition of the term.... more |
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AB 664 Workers Compensation: Hospital Employees: Presumption
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| ACIC Position: Oppose |
| Last ACIC Action: 05/15/2009 |
| Summary: AB 664 would create a presumption of compensability for blood-borne infectious diseases, neck and back impairments or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus that develops during a person’s employment at a hospital. ... more |
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SB 683 Workers Compensation: Group Self-Insurers: Audits
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| ACIC Position: Oppose |
| Last ACIC Action: 04/15/2009 |
| Summary: SB 683 would require a workers compensation group self-insurer to annually file with the director of the Office of Self Insured Plans an audit by an independent, certified public accountant of the financial accounts and records of the group self-insurer.... more |
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AB 879 Workers Compensation: Self-Insurers: Financial Audits
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| ACIC Position: Support |
| Last ACIC Action: 05/11/2009 |
| Summary: AB 879 would require a group self-insurer to annually file with the director of the Office of Self- Insured Plans an audited financial statement and an actuarial certification of reserve adequacy. The financial statement and the actuarial certification would be made available to the public. ... more |
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AB 933 Workers Compensation: Utilization Review
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| ACIC Position: Oppose |
| Last ACIC Action: 08/30/2010 |
| Summary: AB 933 would require that a physician who conducts utilization review of an injured worker’s medical treatment to be a California licensed physician. ... more |
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AB 1140 Diagnostic Imaging Services
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| ACIC Position: Support |
| Last ACIC Action: 05/14/2009 |
| Summary: AB 1140 would expressly include an entity that contracts with an insurance company to be responsible for the payment of diagnostic imaging services in the statutory definition of “responsible third-party payer.” ... more |
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SB 1213 Electronic access to claims information
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| ACIC Position: Oppose |
| Last ACIC Action: 04/16/2010 |
| Summary: SB 1213 could pose serious problems for the Electronic Adjudication Management System (EAMS). ... more |
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SB 1242 Insurance: Guarantee Association
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| ACIC Position: Support |
| Last ACIC Action: 06/07/2010 |
| Summary: The California Insurance Guarantee Association (CIGA) was created to protect California insurance consumers from losses arising after an insurance company becomes insolvent. ... more |
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AB 1994 Hospital Employees: Presumption
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| ACIC Position: Oppose |
| Last ACIC Action: 04/14/2010 |
| Summary: AB 1994 would create a presumption that a hospital employee who develops a blood-borne infectious disease or a neck or back impairment has an injury that is covered by workers compensation.... more |
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AB 2396 Workers Compensation Insurance: Rating Organizations
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| ACIC Position: Oppose |
| Last ACIC Action: 07/27/2010 |
| Summary: AB 2396 would require the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau (WCIRB) as the “designated statistical agent” to conduct public meetings and to release specific records to the public. ... more |
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AB 2490 Workers Compensation Insurance: Dispute Resolution: Arbitration Clauses
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| ACIC Position: Oppose |
| Last ACIC Action: 04/16/2010 |
| Summary: AB 2490 would impose requirements on agreements relating to disputes between employers and workers’ compensation insurers.... more |
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AB 2593 Workers Compensation: official medical fee schedule
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| ACIC Position: Oppose |
| Last ACIC Action: 04/29/2010 |
| Summary: AB 2593 proposes to de-link the state’s official medical fee schedule for pharmacy from the Medi-Cal schedule for pharmacy reimbursement. ... more |
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AB 2779 Workers Compensation: Compound Medication
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| ACIC Position: Support |
| Last ACIC Action: 08/20/2010 |
| Summary: AB 2279 would require that compound medications would only be covered under workers compensation if prior approval has determined the compound medication is medically necessary. ... more |
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AB 2781 Insurance Guarantee Association
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| ACIC Position: Support |
| Last ACIC Action: 06/02/2010 |
| Summary: The California Insurance Guarantee Association (CIGA) was created to protect California insurance consumers from losses arising after an insurance company becomes insolvent. ... more |
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