Division of Workers' Compensation
News and Updates
May 20008
- New Rule: 69L-24.0231
Benefits and Administration Trust Fund Penalties Improper Filing
Practices.
April 2008
- The Bureau of Employee
Assistance information has been updated, as well as the
bureau's district
offices
- The following forms have been
updated: DFS-F2-DWC-1a (Wage Statement)
and DFS-F2-DWC-30 (Authorization and Request for Unemployment Compensation Information)
- Florida Stay-at-Work Consortium - Florida’s CFO Alex
Sink and the Division of Workers’ Compensation are participating
in a national initiative and summit seeking better ways to help
sick or injured workers stay at work or return to work
sooner--and stay employed. The Florida Summit on Preventing
Needless Work Disability, to be held at the Rosen Centre in
Orlando on June 1 & 2, 2008, is expected to draw up to 200
healthcare providers, employers, insurers and others seeking to
improve the service now delivered by disability benefits and
workers’ compensation systems. If you wish to learn more,
request an invitation, and or be involved as a sponsor of this
unique and extremely important event visit
www.60summits.org or call
1-800-319-7425.
- EDI statistics
(paper vs. electronic submissions) updated
March 2008
February 2008
January 2008
-
The following forms have been updated and are available under
Rules and Forms:
- DFS-F2-DWC-1, 3, 4, 10, 12, 13, 14, 19, 33, 35, 40, 49
- SI-17, SI-27
- DWC-250, 250-R, 251, 251-R, Request for Duplicate Exemption
- DFS-F5-DWC-25 (all formats)
- DFS-F1-SDF-1, 2, 6, PW-2
- Added to Medical EDI:
EOBR
Line Item Paid Business Rules for 2008
[27K PDF] (DWC-9, DWC-10, and DWC-11),
EOBR Business Rules Based on Revenue Code for 2008
[24K PDF] (DWC-90)
- The Claims EDI area has been updated
with new information and files
- EDI statistics
(paper vs. electronic submissions) updated
-
Recommendations for Determining Customary Charges for Florida
Outpatient Hospital Services to Workers’ Compensation Patients
[2MB PDF]
- The Division of Insurance Fraud, Bureau of
Workers’ Compensation Fraud and the Division of
Workers’ Compensation, Bureau of Compliance
issued a
Joint Report
[4MB PDF] summarizing
their respective efforts and activities in
combating workers’ compensation fraud and
employer non-compliance for the period of
7/1/06-6/30/07.
- Special Disability
Trust Fund, Actuarial Analysis as of June 30, 2007
[1.5MB
PDF] has been added to Publications
December 2007
- The Division of Workers’ Compensation is proposing to amend
Rule 69L-24.0231, F.A.C.
The purpose of the amendment is to provide a thirty day time
period within which a Claims Administrator will not receive a
late filing penalty for any First Reports of Injury or Illness
accepted by the Division of Workers’ Compensation after the
Claims Administrator is first approved by the Division to
electronically submit such reports to the Division. The rule
workshop is scheduled for Monday, January 7, 9:00am – 12:00 pm
in Room104 J of the Hartman Bldg., 2012 Capital Circle S. E.,
Tallahassee, Florida. View
rule [40K PDF]
- New Informational Memorandum:
DFS-14-2007 [22K PDF] - Maximum
Workers’ Compensation Rate, Effective January 1, 2008
-
Organization information for the Bureau of Data Quality
and Collection and Bureau of Operations
Support has been updated
-
EDI statistics
(paper vs. electronic submissions) updated
-
The following Medical EDI
documents have been updated on 12/6/2007:
- The Claims EDI section's
FL R3
Scenarios [2.9MB PDF] was revised
on 12/1/07
- Updated Instructional
Manual [2.8MB PDF] for
the online Penalty Payment Service.
See 2007
News and Updates items.
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News and Updates items.
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News and Updates items.
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See 2003 News and Updates items.
See 2002 News and Updates items.
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