Big Brother Is Watching; How About Big Insurers or Big Pharma?
The emergence of electronic prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) in every state over the last 20 years has provided physicians, [...]
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09, 2018
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02, 2018
Who Should Decide?
INTRODUCTION The current wave of legislative activity in the workers’ compensation world is the introduction of legislation creating formularies. [...]
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09, 2017
A PRIMER ON FORMULARIES ‒ THOSE HERE AND THOSE COMING (September 2017)
A PRIMER ON FORMULARIES ‒ THOSE HERE AND THOSE COMING WHAT’S NEXT? The next wave of legislative activity in the [...]
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05, 2017
Workers’ Compensation – “And The Money Keeps Rolling In” − To Insurers
2017 NCCI Report Last year, PRI highlighted reports of the National Council of Compensation Insurance (NCCI) as to the profit [...]
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03, 2017
Opioid/Heroin/Fentanyl (Updated Fall 2017).
Over the last few years there has been steadily increasing concern over the abuse of legal opioids such as Oxycodone [...]
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11, 2016
The New Drug Strength Loophole (updated November 17, 2016)
In April of 2016, the Workers' Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) published a study entitled Physician Dispensing of Higher-Priced Drug Strengths [...]
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10, 2016
Oregon Report 2016 / One Thing It Tells Us (October 27, 2016)
On a biennial basis, the Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services produces a workers' compensation premium rate summary of [...]