While injured workers have an absolute choice over their pharmacist, physicians are not considered pharmacists and therefore not entitled to reimbursement.
Legislators continue to introduce bills to limit AI-generated healthcare decisions, even as the U.S. Attorney General has been instructed to oppose them.
After regional public health collaboratives formed in September, New York could be the first state to formally shift policies away from deferring to federal guidelines.
NCCI tracked 950 bills impacting workers’ comp, highlighting key trends across the country, such as PTSD and cancer presumptions, worker classification, and psychedelics.
