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We are closed Monday, September 4th in observance of
Labor Day. |
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ATTENTION: The
Commission will begin using metal detectors at our
regional hearing rooms on the following dates:
Beltsville August 28, 2023
Abingdon September 5, 2023
Frederick September 11, 2023
La Plata
September 25, 2023
Cambridge
September 28, 2023
Under current policy, no weapons of any kind or anything
that can be used as a weapon may be brought onto the
Commission premises. All briefcases, backpacks, purses,
etc. are subject to screening. Those with pacemakers and
other implantable devices, or those who have a medical
condition that should avoid screening through metal
detectors should inform the security officer and they
will be subject to manual screening. This includes those
in wheelchairs. Only police officers will be allowed to
bring their weapon onsite. All others will be required
to take the item off the premises. Attorneys should
notify their clients and attendees of the new screening
process. Please plan to arrive a little earlier to allow
sufficient time for screening. As we strive to ensure a
safe and secure hearing process, the Commission
appreciates your patience as we institute new measures.
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Attention attorneys and
paralegals: If you tried a case before the
Commission between August 7 - August 24, please keep a
log of those cases and verify that you have received
orders on all of them. Please check our system for the
orders as the new system was not issuing any e-notices
that orders were being sent out until that function was
fixed yesterday. |
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CompHub Users –
Helpful Hint:
Please note if you receive a message that there is an
action pending or an open case, it means that
someone has started the same process with the same claim
number and didn’t complete it. You can confirm by
checking with the attorney or proxy to see if there is a
task in their inbox related to that process and claim.
Check your inbox regularly for tasks that you have
started but did not complete. If you are not going to
submit the task, they should be cancelled. For Claim at
a Glance, the cancel is located at the bottom of the
task with Save & Submit. For all other tasks, it is
located on the right side panel under your initials and
the case number in the “Events” section.
Please remember to send all questions or issues to
comphubsupport@wcc.state.md.us. Also, on this home
page is a link to numerous educational material and
videos on the CompHub processes. These materials are
also available via the CompHub landing page through the
Knowledge Center link at the top of the page. They are
filed in the Knowledge Center by topic. |
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The Online Daily Dockets report is available.
See Schedules
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ATTENTION: Effective
August 28, 2023, the Commission will begin using metal
detectors at our Beltsville hearing rooms. Under
current policy, no weapons of any kind or anything that
can be used as a weapon, may be brought onto the
Commission premises. All briefcases, backpacks, purses,
etc. are subject to screening. Those with pacemakers and
other implantable devices, or those who have a medical
condition that should avoid screening through metal
detectors should inform the security officer and they
will be subject to manual screening. This includes those
in wheelchairs. Only police officers will be allowed to
bring their weapon onsite. All others will be required
to take the item off the premises. Attorneys should
notify their clients and attendees of the new screening
process. Please plan to arrive a little earlier to allow
sufficient time for screening. As we strive to ensure a
safe and secure hearing process, the Commission
appreciates your patience as we institute new measures. |
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Online form available:
Motion to Compel Medical Authorization
(cognitoforms.com) |
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Valid Powers of Attorney:
To
be valid, a power of attorney filed with the Commission
through CompHub MUST comply with Estates & Trusts Art. §
17-110:
(a) In general. -- A power of attorney
executed on or after October 1, 2010, shall be:
(1) In writing;
(2)
Signed by the principal or by some other person for the
principal, in the presence of the principal, and at the
express direction of the principal;
(3) Acknowledged by the principal before a notary
public; and
(4)
Attested and signed by two or more adult witnesses who
sign in the presence of the principal and in the
presence of each other.
(b) Notary public as adult
witness. -- The notary public before whom the principal
acknowledges the power of attorney may also serve as one
of the two or more adult witnesses. In addition, the
filer must check the boxes in CompHub to certify that
the POA complies with any requirements of § 17-202 or
203, which are the statutory forms prescribed by the
General Assembly.
Note: If the POA does not comply with Estates & Trusts
Art. § 17-110, the claim will be REJECTED.
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8/17/23 Updates
- Attention
Practitioners Please note that attorney proxies
cannot file the Entry of Appearance on behalf of the
attorney at this time. This should be fixed by
Monday, 8/21/23.
- Attention
CompHub Users Please note that if you do not see
claim documents in the claim file in CompHub, the
documents may not have migrated over yet. Please use
the ‘Claim Document Request’ feature on the CompHub
landing page (the page before you log in) and enter
your email address and claim numbers separated by a
comma. Once the computer migrates over the claim
documents, you will receive an email.
- If you are
having difficulty filing something like a Request
for Modification, please check Claim Documents to
see if there are documents there. If there are no
documents, then the documents need to be migrated
before you will be able to file the Request.
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The Medical Fee Guide Committee will hold a virtual
meeting on Thursday, September 21, 2023, at 12pm. The
meeting will be held using Microsoft Teams and will
discuss the prescription fee guide.
Meeting phone
number 443 961-6421 Conference ID 863-410-104#
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The Commission is excited to officially roll out our
next-generation claims management system, CompHub, on
Monday, August 14, 2023! If you have the opportunity,
please take a few minutes and log into the training
environment to familiarize yourself with CompHub and its
features. On Monday, 8/14/23, after 8 am, you will be
able to log into CompHub using your WFMS credentials. If
you did not have a WFMS account, then you will need to
register as a CompHub Subscriber. There is a button on
the CompHub landing page which will take you to the
Registration process. On the landing page there is also
a knowledge center with instructional materials to guide
you through using CompHub. We may not have an
instructional tool for every process but they all start
the same way with “Start New Action” unless you are
completing a task that has been sent to your CompHub
Inbox. The Knowledge Center will be updated as new
information becomes available. If you have questions
or concerns, please feel free to contact
Comphubsupport@wcc.state.md.us. After August 14, you
may also call 410-368-0992 during business hours where
we will be glad to assist you. During the first month of
using CompHub, the Commission will print and mail paper
copies to users as well as send emails with links to the
document in CompHub. This is to ensure that all
electronic mail is getting through to our users. We know
that it will take some time to get used to using CompHub
but we hope you enjoy its enhanced features.
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NOTICE - 8/09/23:
Telephone communications are currently unavailable. If
you can't reach us via usual means, please contact us
via emergency telephone 410-450-3386 or email
info@wcc.state.md.us, 8a-4:30p weekdays, for
assistance.We will post updated information as
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ATTENTION E-NOTICE
SUBSCRIBERS As the Commission has published,
the WFMS system will be shut down on Wednesday around 4
pm. No one will be able to access the system during the
shutdown. Some processes at the Commission do have
overnight printing and the E-notices are generated
during this process. Anything that is processed on
Wednesday by the Commission that would generate an
E-notice will still generate that email. However, you
will not be able to use the email link after 4 pm.
Therefore, any notice/automatic order that is generated
after 4 pm will be sent to the claim file but you will
not be able to use the link included in the email to
access that document. Please keep track of the E-notice
emails that you may receive so that you can check the
claim file in CompHub on Monday, 8/14. We apologize for
this inconvenience but this allows a minimal of downtime
for the system during the migration process.
The
Commission will not be issuing any orders or E-notices
after Wednesday night until the system goes live. It is
our intention to process everything that is received on
Wednesday until 4 pm. It will take several days through
the weekend to migrate the data and claim files over to
the new system. On Monday, you should check the claim
file (in CompHub) for any email that you received on
Wednesday evening. The email subject should tell you the
claim number and what the notice is.
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Some available CompHub
portal resources are listed below
CompHub Quick Start Guides
https://www.wcc.state.md.us/WFMS/CompHub_Materials.html
CompHub Training Videos
https://youtube.com/@marylandwcc
Need Help? Contact:
CompHubTrainingTeam@wcc.state.md.us
CompHub Training Environment
https://training.wcc.state.md.us/CompHub
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During our system transition, please abide by the
following deadlines and procedures:
There are no hearings AUGUST 10 Commission meeting
Day. Hearing exhibits for AUGUST 11 dockets should
upload by AUGUST 8. Hearing exhibits for AUGUST 14
dockets should upload by AUGUST 9. Hearing exhibits for
AUGUST 15 and AUGUST 16 are due during the shutdown.
Exhibits for those dockets shall be emailed to
the Commissioner hearing the case and
to opposing parties in compliance with the 3-day filing
rule. BRING PAPER EXHIBITS TO THE HEARINGS ON
AUGUST 15 & AUGUST 16. We will scan the exhibits
for those hearing dates into CompHub for you.
Other pleadings will be accepted in paper form at the
Commission’s headquarters on August 10 and 11th while
the system is closed.
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UPDATED - Attention subscribed Attorneys, Paralegals &
Legal Secretaries, Insurers, Healthcare Providers and
Vocational Rehabilitation Practitioners: Thank
you to all who have participated in our virtual CompHub
training sessions. We will be retiring our WFMS
Online Services effective close of business on
Wednesday, August 9th at 4:30pm. You will not have
access to WFMS to file online, research, view, upload,
etc. during this time. Please complete all
necessary tasks for hearings scheduled on August 11th
and 14th before the August 9th shutdown. During the
shutdown, please contact Commissioners’
offices directly for any questions
regarding dockets on August 11th and 14th.
Updated supplemental information about our new CompHub
portal, training opportunities and more will post here
with information prior to the new CompHub launch process
scheduled on Monday, August 14th.
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Attention Attorneys, Paralegals & Legal Secretaries,
Insurers, Healthcare Providers and Vocational
Rehabilitation Practitioners:
Thank you to those who have participated in our virtual
CompHub training sessions. We will post information
about additional training opportunities next week. We
will alert the community of other upcoming trainings
including the online training platform when available.
Additional questions? - CompHubTrainingTeam@wcc.state.md.us |
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