Workers' Compensation Board

Inappropriate Payment Requests

We examined Workers' Compensation Board (Board) payment requests during the period January 1, 2010 through December 31, 2010. We found the Board made 619 inappropriate payment requests totaling over $3.9 million, including $3.43 million in potential overpayments and $481,000 in potential underpayments. These included typing errors, duplicate payments, computation errors and payments not properly calculated according to the Workers' Compensation fee schedules.

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