The California Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) issued a 15-day notice of public comment period beginning on October 13, 2025, for modifying the text of proposed amendments to the Medical...
The National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) published a new report on Adverse Weather and Workers’ Compensation Claims, analyzing NCCI data from 35 states from 2001-2022 to examine the link...
On October 23rd, Healthesystems attended the Maryland Workers’ Compensation Commission’s Medical Fee Guide Committee meeting. Maryland has long considered implementing a Pharmacy Fee Guide, but the failure of Senate Bill...
...ruled that medical marijuana is reimbursable in workers’ comp, while three states – Florida, North Dakota, and Michigan – explicitly exempt medical marijuana from workers’ comp reimbursement. Marijuana continues to...
...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...
...latest heat-related developments in workers’ comp. New Reports Bring New Insights Several new reports on workers and extreme heat were published in 2024, with each offering new insights. In May,...
...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...
...and opioid overdose. The study involved a population-based, county-level analysis that compared three sets of data. The first data set was industry marketing information pulled from the Centers for Medicare...
