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Oakland - The use of opioids in California workers’ compensation has declined in recent years, along with the associated payments, yet these potentially addictive painkillers remain the number one therapeutic drug group used in the system according...

Can an insurer submit medication prescription requests to utilization review (UR) even where those medications have been repeatedly authorized before? That question has been hotly debated in California workers’ comp circles after a recent WCAB...

Roger Rabb, J.D., Special Correspondent for the LexisNexis Workers’ Compensation eNewsletter As physicians continue to prescribe opioids such as Vicodin, OxyContin, and codeine to help patients with chronic pain, there is a growing concern that...

Two new studies published by Workers’ Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) show that on average three out of four injured workers in the United States receive opioid prescriptions for pain relief following workplace injuries and that generally...

A federal district court, indicating that state lawmakers “may not use vague regulations to sidestep or countermand federal law” for opioid dispensing, has struck down two Massachusetts regulations that would ban or limit sales of Zohydro...

Patients with such disorders 28 times more likely to become addicted to opioids Thomas A. Robinson, J.D., the Feature National Columnist for the LexisNexis Workers’ Compensation eNewsletter , is a leading commentator and expert on the law of...

By Elizabeth Connellan Smith, Counsel, Verrill Dana LLP, Portland, ME Innovation isn’t always the first word associated with the regulation of workers’ compensation, but innovation was in the forefront of the Commissioners and Associate...

If one was trying to track hot topics and trends in California workers’ comp, a good place to start would have been a recent March conference in Oakland attended by many prominent stakeholder representatives. Oakland’s Marriott Hotel was...

TAMPA , FL and BALTIMORE, MD – PMSI, one of the nation’s largest providers of specialty products and services for the workers’ compensation market, and Ameritox, the nation’s leader in pain medication monitoring solutions, today...

NEW ORLEANS, LA - At a recent American Psychiatric Association's annual meeting, Dwight Smith, MD, of Boston Medical Center, gave a presentation on how drug abuse tests often give inaccurate results and how most standard drug tests don't screen...