Oregon Report 2020 – The Rates Keep Dropping and a Lot (February 2021)
On a biennial basis, the Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services publishes a ranking of the states with respect [...]
On a biennial basis, the Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services publishes a ranking of the states with respect [...]
Here is what needs to be done to take advantage of this tax savings.
Stirred by the opioid crisis, state legislatures began enacting E-prescribing laws which required prescriptions for certain medicines to be sent electronically to the pharmacy. The notion was that electronic transmission would cut down on fraudulent paper transactions.
Formularies are a standard feature in health insurance and now are appearing in the workers compensation area.
Updated information since our last post of July 2019 reveals that the “unprecedented level of underwriting success” has continued unabated.
On a biennial basis, the Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services publishes a ranking of the states with respect [...]
The emergence of electronic prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) in every state over the last 20 years has provided physicians, [...]
Since 2013 the number of opioid prescriptions written by doctors has gone down dramatically (see Chart #1 at bottom [...]
INTRODUCTION The current wave of legislative activity in the workers’ compensation world is the introduction of legislation creating formularies. [...]
The current opioid epidemic has “…claimed more lives than the HIV/AIDS crisis at its peak.” Time Magazine, November 13, 2017, p.15. Policy makers have taken notice of the epidemic and state legislatures have enacted various bills over the last year; President Trump declared the opioid epidemic to be a national public health emergency on October 26, 2017.