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.
Johnson & Johnson said on Saturday it will pay $263 million to resolve claims it fueled an opioid epidemic in New York state and two of its largest counties.
Prescription payments per medical claim decreased by 15% or more in many states, but per claim payments remain high in some areas of the country, according to a report released Tuesday by the Workers Compensation Research Institute.
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Monday signed a medical marijuana bill into law, making it legal for registered patients with a qualifying condition, such as chronic pain, to use medical cannabis as a treatment.
Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatories now account for more than a third of all drugs dispensed to injured workers, and just two NSAIDs account for two-thirds of prescription payments in that drug category, according to a report released Wednesday by the California Workers Compensation Institute.
The New Hampshire Supreme Court on Tuesday again remanded a workers compensation medical marijuana reimbursement claim, demanding a better explanation from the states workers compensation appeals board on its decision to deny it.
A federal judge in Texas has dismissed Walmart Inc.'s lawsuit against the U.S. government in which the retailer was seeking clarity over the responsibilities of pharmacists in filling opioid prescriptions.
Employers and their workers compensation insurers in New Jersey would have to cover the costs for medical marijuana under a proposal introduced in the state Senate on Thursday.
Californias workers compensation drug formulary continues to reduce pharmaceutical costs and shift prescribing to drugs not subject to utilization review, according to meeting minutes released Tuesday from the Workers Compensation Insurance Ratings Bureaus actuarial committee review of the formulary in December.
North Dakota lawmakers passed a bill to cap the amount and duration of opioids and benzodiazepine that can be prescribed to injured workers in the state.
An environmental inspector who was injured in a car accident in 2002 and continues to suffer pain and other issues will no longer receive a number of medications, including two opioids, after medical testimony raised concerns over addiction and that the pills were not resulting in his improvement, an appeals court in West Virginia ruled […]
The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday voted 228 to 164, mostly along party lines, to decriminalize marijuana, a drug that has been a concern to those in workers compensation and workplace safety.
An appeals court in Louisiana on Wednesday denied a seafood processing companys appeal of a ruling that it had to pay for compound cream to treat a worker suffering from pain, finding that there was no evidence to show that the cream was not appropriate.
Election day saw another wave of marijuana legalization, with voters in four states joining the ranks of the 11 states that had already approved recreational marijuana and voters in two states approving medical marijuana.
McKesson Corp. and two other drug distributors could be expected to pay up to $21 billion for the potential settlement of lawsuits alleging the companies fueled the U.S. opioid epidemic, the company said on Tuesday.
New Jersey lawmakers will consider whether workers compensation insurers in the state will be required to pay for medical marijuana under certain circumstances.