Recent reforms that established a prescription drug formulary for California’s workers’ comp system, and which created a utilization review exemption for many treatments rendered during the first 30 days of …
California’s evidence-based prescription drug formulary may soon add cost consideration to the process for selecting which drugs will qualify as exempt and which must go through utilization review. Members of …
The opioid crisis in America is not a recent development. It has as its genesis a wide range of causes, from efforts to treat chronic pain to diversion of drugs …
California’s proposed workers’ comp prescription drug formulary is getting praise for clamping down on the use of highly addictive opioids. But concerns are rising about the administrative burden it may …
Competing firms that develop medical treatment guidelines and prescription drug formularies are stepping up the rhetoric as California moves to implement a formulary for the state’s workers’ comp system. The …
The first draft of California’s workers’ comp drug formulary could be ready for circulation and comment as early as May. That’s the word from officials at the Department of Industrial …
The Division of Workers’ Compensation was seeking industry feedback for setting the initial development priorities for the state’s first-ever workers’ comp prescription drug formulary and boy-oh-boy did it get an …
Every year the first issue of the Workers’ Comp Executive includes a “Top Ten Stories” item covering the hottest issues from the prior 12 months. Some years workers’ comp reforms …