The dragnet targeting pharmaceutical manufacturers that pay medical providers to write opioid prescriptions has continued to widen.
Two months after an Insys Therapeutics sales representative pleaded
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SACRAMENTO, California — State lawmakers on Wednesday requested an audit comparing medical treatment provided to inmates who were injured while assigned to work details with the
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A federal project that seeks to reconfigure the methods used to get injured and sick employees back to work as soon as possible has taken its
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A study committee is just a week away from finalizing a draft of legislation that would take Alabama’s permanent partial disability benefits from the lowest
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The question of whether platelet-rich plasma is an effective treatment for musculoskeletal injuries is complicated.
PRP, which is prepared from a patient’s own blood, can be
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Another court has found that air ambulances cannot be restrained by workers’ compensation fee schedules. But questions remain about what, if anything, can set the
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A federal trail court judge last week ruled that a New Jersey staffing company has to cough up $166,202.65 in past-due workers’ compensation premiums to
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Those who have been anxiously awaiting expiration of the patent for brand-name drug Lyrica, one of the top-prescribed drugs in workers’ comp, may have to
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Two Southern California lawmakers want the state’s auditor to conduct an independent investigation on the timeliness of medical care being provided to injured workers.
Assemblyman
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After years of legislation that tilted the playing field in favor of employers, the ground seems to have shifted back toward workers a bit in
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