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Pennsylvania vocational expert billing —
Act 57 earning power, and the file behind it.

34 Pa. Code §123.202 approves you, the carrier retains you, and the earning power assessment you write under Act 57 will be read by a workers’ compensation judge. SWIF and the private carriers pay; WCAIS holds the filings.

No card. No contract. Your data stays on your computer.
Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry

The facts, before the pitch.

How billing works in Pennsylvania

Who you bill
The carrier.
What you send
Invoice.
The channel
Direct; WCAIS for filings.
Fee basis
No published rate we have verified. Ask the Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry before anyone quotes you one — including us.
The clock
Not a deadline we have verified for Pennsylvania. Ask the Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry, and read the payer’s own contract, before you rely on a date.

The system. Carrier-retained vocational experts performing Act-57 earning power assessments inside the WCAIS ecosystem.

Where the rules are written. 34 Pa. Code §123.202.

Configured for Pennsylvania during onboarding — see it with your caseload. Your rates, your forms, your payers and your folder names are set up in your first week, included in every plan. What is on this page is what we would configure; we have not claimed a single Pennsylvania customer anywhere on it.

Your week

Your week, in Pennsylvania’s documents.

Forensic work, billed by the hour, where the document outlives the invoice by years.

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Records review for an earning power assessment.Timed as it happens. Hours on a forensic file get examined more closely than hours anywhere else.
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Labour-market survey calls. Six employers.Six contacts, each dated and sourced, because each one may be asked about individually.
  • 2:10 p.m.
    Report drafting.Written once, in your template, and never retyped into a second version that can disagree with the first.
  • 4:40 p.m.
    Invoice to the carrier, itemised by date and task.A receivable from the day it leaves. Deposition time, when it comes, is another line.
The daily activity grid: coded, timed entries at 0.1-unit precision with notes, rates and claim numbers.
The grid an Ohio caseload produces — codes at $81.90 and $91.00, 0.1-unit entries, notes in her own bracket style. In Pennsylvania the codes, the rates and the form change; the row does not.

Every one of those rows is typed once, as it happens. The daily log writes itself as you go, the weekly narrative log builds in your own Word template, the claim form or invoice fills with the right units and the right payer block, and the receivable exists the moment the bill leaves. The whole chain →

The document that gets cross-examined

In Pennsylvania your hours are evidence too.

An Act 57 earning power assessment is written to be contested. So is the invoice behind it: how many hours the survey took, which employers were called, on what date, by whom.

Three versions of one afternoon — one in your tracker, one in the report, one on the bill — is how small inconsistencies get born. One entry, three outputs, is why the three documents say the same thing.

WCAIS is where the filings live. The billing chain is separate, and it is the part that quietly costs you evenings.

The payer directory

Who pays you in Pennsylvania.

SWIF, the state fund, and the private carriers, with the vocational expert retained by the defence rather than assigned. Referral source belongs on every file here.

Pennsylvania payers

  • SWIF (state fund)
  • Private carriers

National carriers you will meet

  • Travelers
  • The Hartford
  • AmTrust
  • Zurich
  • Chubb
  • Berkshire Hathaway
  • Liberty Mutual
  • AF Group / Accident Fund
  • Old Republic
  • Great American

TPAs that send the referrals

  • Sedgwick
  • Gallagher Bassett
  • ESIS
  • Helmsman
  • Broadspire
  • CorVel
  • TRISTAR
  • CCMSI
  • Athens Administrators

One check, many claimants. Whichever of these names is on the envelope, the check covers a dozen files at once. You record it once, tick the bills it pays, and anything short is flagged with the exact gap and the original form attached, ready to rebill. How that screen works.

Payer fax numbers and billing addresses go stale faster than any page can keep up, so we publish them only where we keep them current — today that is Ohio’s nine MCOs. Your Pennsylvania payers, their submission addresses and their quirks get set up during onboarding, from your own files.

Pennsylvania resources

Where the rules actually live.

Ask the Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry for

  • the current text of 34 Pa. Code §123.202

We have not published a verified link set for Pennsylvania yet, and we would rather send you nowhere than somewhere out of date. If you have the current documents, send them over — admin@onservice.us.

How we keep this page honest

Every fact above is transcribed from the Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry or the statute named, dated July 2026, and reviewed when the agency republishes. Where we have not verified something we say so rather than filling the gap.

Found something out of date? Tell us and we will fix it the same week: 1-877-843-1717 or admin@onservice.us.

What we have not confirmed, and will not claim. We have not confirmed that Pennsylvania publishes a public roster of Department-approved vocational experts, so we do not link one or describe one. Ask the Department of Labor & Industry.
Configured for Pennsylvania

See a Pennsylvania caseload run itself.

Fifteen minutes, Pennsylvania’s codes on screen, with a caseload that looks like yours. Or start the trial and poke around on your own — no card, no contract.

There is a phone number and a person answers it: 1-877-843-1717.

States that work like Pennsylvania

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Questions, answered.

Is this built for forensic vocational work?

It is built for time-based professional work that has to be documented and billed — which describes an earning power assessment precisely. Contacts, dates, sources and hours entered once, and a report and an invoice that cannot contradict each other.

Can it bill deposition and testimony time differently?

Yes. Different activities can carry different rates, and the invoice keeps them itemised by date and task.

Does it file into WCAIS?

No. WCAIS is where Department filings go and you do that yourself. The software handles the billing chain and the record behind it.

Is there a published roster of approved vocational experts?

We have not confirmed one, so we do not link one. Ask the Department of Labor & Industry rather than trusting a vendor page.

Where is my data?

On your computer, in your folders, backed up on every launch and exportable forever.

See your own week run itself.

Fifteen minutes, your state’s codes on screen — or start the trial and poke around on your own.

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