...impacts healthcare professionals across the board, including those in the workers’ compensation industry. Earlier in March, the United States Senate Special Committee on Aging held a hearing on the complex web...
...to figure out in the coming months and years, there is now a stronger likelihood that marijuana will make its way more into workers’ comp on some level or another....
...recall included several compounded opioid products, including various lots of fentanyl, morphine, and hydromorphone compounds, along with certain lots of benzodiazepine compounds that included midazolam. The expanded recall now includes...
...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...
...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...
The California Pharmacy and Therapeutic (P&T) Committee will hold a hybrid meeting on April 16th at 12:30 PM PST to discuss key issues related to the workers' compensation drug formulary....
...the differences between workers’ comp and group health PBMs and the specific value that workers’ comp PBMs bring to the table. Sandy Shtab was one of three panelists, joining Sean...
The Texas Department of Insurance will host a CompCourses webinar on December 11th at 1:00 PM CST, focusing on compliance within the Texas workers' comp system. The webinar will provide...
...the most recent addition to a growing number of states expanding cancer coverage for firefighters in workers’ comp. In April, Montana Senate Bill 160 was signed into law, expanding workers’ comp...
...argued that additional regulations would place unnecessary burdens on stakeholders in the workers' compensation sector, given the existing oversight by the New York Workers' Compensation Board. These new regulations are...
