...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...
...the flow of business for a host of industries. A report from the White House last summer indicated that all major business sectors reported some level of supply chain disruption.1...
The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) recently published Comparative Effectiveness of Different Treatment Pathways for Opioid Use Disorder. This study compared the effectiveness of six different treatment pathways across...
Back in September, Sandoz Inc. voluntarily recalled all quantities and lots within expiry of ranitidine hydrochloride capsules because of confirmed contamination with N-Nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA), a probable human carcinogen, above levels established by...
...Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) examined 575,000 claims across 27 states, which represented 37-72% of workers’ comp claims in each state, and found that opioid prescribing dropped significantly in comp claims. In...
A California lawmaker is advancing efforts to improve transparency and accountability in workers’ compensation contracts through Assembly Bill 1048. Introduced in February, the bill initially lacked details but has since...
Healthesystems attended the Louisiana’s Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee meeting on April 23, 2025, to follow testimony on Senate Bill 213. The bill aims to standardize workers’ comp reimbursement...
...as common among workers who are members of a labor union. Workplace testing was the most common in the healthcare industry, with 48% of workers testing positive at least once....
...influence, leading to safety issues that could cause workplace injuries. For further information on marijuana’s impact on workers’ comp, download Healthesystems’ white paper, Clearing the Air: Marijuana Considerations for Workers’ Comp....
...or Moderna vaccine required to wait six months after completion of vaccination, and those who received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine to wait two months after completion of vaccination. https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety-alerts/sagent-pharmaceuticals-inc-issues-voluntary-nationwide-recall-levetiracetam-injection-usp-due-lack...
...of an evidence-based drug formulary for workers’ compensation claims. The bill prohibits workers’ compensation and occupational disease compensation reimbursements for drugs specified as “not recommended” in the Official Disability Guidelines...
On June 24th, Healthesystems attended the Washington’s Workers' Compensation Advisory Committee’s (WCAC) quarterly meeting, which focused on the rise in long-term disability claims. Factors contributing to long-term disability claims include...
Illinois House Bill 1256 was introduced, written to restrict reimbursement for custom compound medications to a one-time, seven-day supply, payable only if no commercial equivalent exists and all active ingredients...
...is that the company would cease to operate in its current form and would instead emerge from bankruptcy as a public benefit company (PBC) owned by a trust or similar...
...in per-fill price increased 40.4% overall. While cancer is not the most common condition found in workers’ comp claims, it is prevalent enough that drug trends impacting cancer can make...
