By Healthesystems With opioid utilization down, there is no longer a consolidated driver of pharmacy costs in workers’ comp. Instead, the industry faces a growing diversity of smaller, niche trends...
Types of violence that can impact workers’ comp...
In late August, the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California (WCIRB) published a One-Year Checkup on the California Formulary, an early assessment of the California workers’ comp formulary’s impact on actual...
...general inflation rate increased by a modest 6% over 2021. Year Over Year: Dec 2021 – Dec 2022 6.25% - General inflation rate 81.8% - Healthcare inflation rate Historically, healthcare...
Healthesystems’ VP of Clinical Services, Silvia Sacalis, BS, PharmD, was featured in the International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions’ (IAIABC) Perspectives publication. Dr. Sacalis penned an article on...
...2023 by Family Dollar outside of labeled temperature requirements. As ibuprofen is a common pain medication available over-the-counter, it is possible that workers’ comp patients may have purchased these impacted...
...demand the right to use it, especially if efforts from the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee to tackle barriers to marijuana research are successful. How workers’ compensation insurers and employers respond to this...
...pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) help deliver value to multiple stakeholders within workers’ comp, including the employer, insurance carrier, healthcare providers, claims staff – and importantly, the patient. Examples of PBM...
