What's happening this week in workers' compensation? IWP's weekly legislative wrap-up, State of the States, keeps you up to date on important matters within the workers' compensation and pharmacy arena.
This week's legislative wrap-up contains updates including:
- The Illinois House has a handful of bills related to workers' compensation to take up in 2021, including an attempt to require the adoption of an evidence-based drug formulary.
- Legislators in Oklahoma are once more taking up a bill that would provide additional workers' compensation coverage for first responders.
- In North Carolina, the House is considering a bill that would require practitioners to co-prescribe an opioid antagonist when prescribing an opioid.
This edition also includes updates about Missouri and Virginia.
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