Pain Management
The Florida Division of Workers Compensation this month published a notice in the Florida Administrative Register announcing plans to review physician dispensing rules.
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. and AbbVie Inc.s Allergan unit on Tuesday reached a $58 million settlement with the city of San Francisco just before completion of a trial over claims that they fueled an opioid epidemic in the city.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said on Tuesday he was investigating whether Walmart improperly filled prescriptions and failed to report suspicious orders when selling opioid drugs.
The Delaware Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a determination that an injured workers prescribed narcotic pain medications were no longer compensable.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday gave two doctors found guilty of misusing their licenses in the midst of the U.S. opioid epidemic to write thousands of prescriptions for addictive pain medications another chance to challenge their convictions.
Payments for dermatological agents continue to increase while payments for opioids continue to decline, according to a report released Thursday by the Workers Compensation Research Institute.
The average medical cost-per-claim for injured workers with lower back pain who were treated exclusively by a chiropractor was 61% less than for those who received no chiropractic treatment, according to a new report.
A group of Florida workers compensation insurers is challenging the legitimacy of a state policy they claim improperly requires them to authorize physicians and other providers to dispense medications to injured workers.
States that give injured workers control over selecting their medical providers are among those with the highest prevalence of chiropractic care, which data shows can lead to lower workers compensation costs, according to a report released Tuesday by the Workers Compensation Research Institute.
Prescriptions for opioid use disorder medications are on the rise in workers compensation, a trend worth watching, experts say, as most of the drugs being prescribed buprenorphines are still considered opioids in some cases.
Pharmacy chain Walgreens Boots Alliance and other defendants on Tuesday said they were not to blame for the opioid crisis in San Francisco, and that they acted responsibly when providing legal medications to patients in pain.
Johnson & Johnson said Monday it has agreed to pay $99 million to settle opioid-related claims by the state of West Virginia and its sub-divisions, removing the company from an ongoing trial that began earlier this month.
The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday passed a bill to end the federal ban on marijuana, which has created legal headaches for users and businesses in the states that have legalized it, though the measure was seen as unlikely to pass the Senate.
Illinois is the only state to introduce legislation this year to create a workers compensation drug formulary, despite the documented success of such regulations in limiting the prescribing of addictive pain medications to injured workers.
Pharmacy benefits manager ProdigyRx, founded in 2020, announced Tuesday the launch of its business operations.
Lawmakers in Kansas are considering a bill that would clear medical marijuana usage for certain conditions.
Rhode Island is set to square off on Monday against Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., as a multibillion-dollar trial begins over whether the Israeli company contributed to an opioid crisis that has caused more than 500,000 deaths over the past two decades.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday wrestled with the circumstances under which doctors can be convicted of operating as drug dealers under the cover of their medical practices to illegally distribute opioid painkillers and other dangerous narcotics.
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. has reached a settlement worth $225 million to resolve claims the drugmaker fueled an opioid epidemic in Texas by improperly marketing addictive pain medications, the state's attorney general said on Monday.
The Mississippi House of Representatives and Senate on Wednesday passed a bill that would permit the use of medical marijuana.
South Dakota lawmakers are considering a bill that states workers compensation insurers would not be required to reimburse for medical marijuana.
Some members of the committee advising the California Division of Workers Compensation on its prescription drug formulary would like to fast-track certain topical analgesics by exempting them from utilization review.
Nevada has agreed to back a proposed nationwide settlement worth up to $26 billion resolving lawsuits against three large drug distributors and the drugmaker Johnson & Johnson over the deadly U.S. opioid epidemic, the state's attorney general said on Tuesday.