...for care and request reimbursement later from the Board of Adjustment. To help administer a workers’ comp program for teachers, this bill would create the Public Education Employee Injury Compensation...
...comp system. This bill would allow employers to become a "qualified compensation alternative employer." Employers opting for this alternative would be required to adopt written plans that provide no-fault benefits...
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...
...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...
The California Workers’ Compensation Institute (CWCI) published a new report that discusses aspects and challenges of integrating COVID-19 presumptions into the workers’ comp system, following Executive Order N-62-20 which greatly...
...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...
...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...
