Washington State Updates Workers' Compensation Drug Formulary

The Washington State Department of Labor and Industries adopted updates to its workers' compensation drug formulary. The changes include adding several new drug classes—D7K, G0A, S26, V11, W9O and Z6B. The new drug classes added do not include any preferred drugs. In the existing class B6W, generic levetiracetam was added to the preferred list.

These changes are effective on April 1, 2020. Mitchell ScriptAdvisor will have these changes deployed in advance of the effective date.

View a complete listing of the Washington State workers' compensation Outpatient Drug Formulary that includes these recent changes.

For questions related to this alert or any other legislative or regulatory changes, please contact Brian Allen, Vice President of Government Affairs at Brian.Allen@mitchell.com or at 801.903.5754.