We haven’t reached mid-year 2019, and the United States has already experienced several severe weather events, including a polar vortex and many hail storms in the Midwest, massive flooding in the Northern Plains, and heavy El Niño rains in California.
States continue to propose opioid prescribing limits and are looking at more ways to control the prescribing and use of opioids through physician education, patient education, safer packaging and unused medication return options.
Florida, Hawaii and New Jersey look at new bills related to auto personal injury protection.
Several states are looking at or ammending their fee schedules and some states are looking at managed care-related bills.
Florida, Illinois, Oklahoma and Utah look at reform laws.
Various issues in the workers’ compensation industry continue to challenge pharmacies, payers, regulators and injured workers alike. One major tool to alleviate problems in the workers’ compensation system is the use of directed care in a pharmacy setting. Learn how this approach can improve outcomes for all involved in the pharmacy portion of a workers’ compensation claim.
The robot revolution is well underway, and far from science fiction narratives where malicious robot overlords render people obsolete, robots are here to do something surprisingly human: collaborate. Cobots, short for collaborative robots, share another human trait: with the help of artificial intelligence, they can learn on the job.