Unaddressed behavioral health factors can drive up costs for payers and expose injured workers to delayed return-to-work and painkiller addiction.

Despite regulation meant to curb abuse of physician dispensing, it’s still a common practice and presents both safety and financial risks. 

While PBMs should be helping payers negotiate drug prices, these common overcharges could prevent workers’ comp insurers and self-insureds from getting the best deals.

COVID-19 may be making it difficult for chronic pain patients to access care. Here’s what workers’ comp can do to help.

CBD is being hailed as a solution for everything from chronic pain to the opioid epidemic. But what do we really know about the cannabinoid?

Direct messaging capability connects providers and pharmacies with the information they need to deliver optimal patient care.

Because health care plays a big role in workers’ compensation, it is no surprise that the idea of pricing transparency is starting to trickle into the industry.

As he kicks off NWCDC, Dr. Drew Pinsky will address the unique issues of addiction treatment in workers’ comp, and about returning people to flourishing lives.

Specialty drugs, prescription cascades and generics are all impacting the cost of drugs in the workers’ compensation industry.

While dangerous drug combinations are diminishing within the industry, even one claim with drugs that don’t mix could put an injured worker’s well-being at risk

High prescription drug costs are a huge issue in workers’ compensation, but there are a few ways to tackle the rising costs.

A lack of product standardization, the new federal legality of some types of CBD and ever changing state regulations are just some of the issues facing the medical cannabis community.

A new decision out of Texas aims to hold PBMs accountable for their role in perpetuating the epidemic. Other municipalities are likely to follow suit.

Increasingly, PBMs are relying on massive stores of data to identify broader patterns that inform individual prescription decisions.

Cannabis shows promise as a non-opioid treatment for pain, but dosing uncertainty and the plant’s Schedule 1 status will need to be resolved first.

From medical to recreational, marijuana laws are changing across the board. Here’s a look back on some 2018 cannabis decisions and facts and what they could mean for workers’ comp.

Simple injuries that spiral into catastrophic claims account for a disproportionate share of overall workers’ comp dollars. Understanding how we think about pain can go a long way toward developing effective treatment strategies.

For every person who dies from opioid overdose, 50 more individuals have an opioid use disorder and 272 misuse prescription opioids in some way. The time to change is now.

Broadspire’s Marcos Iglesias and attorney Stuart Colburn will help employers and payers separate cannabis fact from cannabis fiction at NWCDC in Las Vegas.

A variety of painkillers make the list, but they aren’t the only drugs that threaten patient safety and compromise outcomes.