Topical creams are becoming part of the mix of pain treatment options as doctors look for alternatives to addictive opioids.
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When police officers in her school district contracted COVID, Rosa Royo and her team stepped up and guaranteed them nurse case management assistance.
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Opioid utilization in workers’ comp has steadily been trending downwards. Yet, data from Mitchell's Pharmacy Trends Report reveals other impactful discoveries for opioid therapeutic classes and dependency issues. In today’s Inside Workers’ Comp, Nikki Wilson, Pharm.D./MBA, Director, Clinical Product | Pharmacy Solutions, joins us to take a deeper dive into the data.
Identifying risk is not new to the industry and has become a pre-requisite for effectively managing claims.
On June 21, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court released an order list for a host of cases before the Court. As part of the list, the Court noted the requests for two workers’ compensation case reviews (Musta v Mendota Heights Dental, et al, and Bierbach v Digger’s Polaris, et al) that had been denied. These two cases dealt with rulings in the state of Minnesota related to employers being required to reimburse for medical marijuana for a workers’ compensation claim.