Happy Monday dear readers!

Your humble blogger trusts you are enjoying the start of October.  As the colors turn and nights get cooler, we witness in shocked silence the horrible battles on store shelves as Halloween, Christmas, and, bizarrely, Thanksgiving-related items battle for shelf space in stores.

Seriously though – can we get through Halloween before the Santa stuff comes out?  The kids demand one of everything and I just don’t have that much trunk space.

Anywho, speaking of Christmas… to some extent it came a bit early this year!  178 Medical Providers were suspended from the workers’ compensation system so far according to this DWC NewsLine.

Are you dealing with a presently suspended medical provider?  Perhaps, when dealing with a demand for PTP authorization, or with bills, or with liens, it makes sense to check on the DIR website to cross reference these names.  

The fact that there is such a framework in place – and a procedure for ridding the workers’ compensation system of bad actions – should remind and encourage us to do our part.  If you suspect fraud or observe fraud, document it and report it appropriately!  Every dollar lining the pocket of a fraud, whether that fraud is collecting undeserved TD or is buying shinier frames for his MD certificate, is a dollar stolen from higher wages for employees, lower costs for consumers, and credibility for us all.

Good hunting to you, dear readers!  Straight on till Wednesday…