Vol. 6, Issue 39

Find Solutions & Strategies                   October 5, 2015
Drug Fee Schedules and Other Factors

The impact on workers' comp prescription drug costs 
In This Issue
- DRUG FEE SCHEDULES
- LARSON'S: Subcontractor, Jurisdiction, Co-employee Immunity, Going and Coming
- NATIONAL & STATE NEWS
- eNEWSLETTER ARCHIVES
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Robin E. Kobayashi, JD, Editor-in-Chief  
effect of drug fee schedules and other factors on workers' comp prescription drug costs
By Roger Rabb, J.D., Special Correspondent for the LexisNexis Workers' Compensation eNewsletter

NCCI studies have shown that establishing a fee schedule for physician services can help keep down costs in workers' compensation claims, and in "The Impact of Workers Compensation Drug Fee Schedules" (Sep. 2015), NCCI researchers similarly examine the effect of prescription drug fee schedules on drug prices in workers' compensation claims. Their findings are similar to those in the physician fee schedule studies: a prescription drug fee schedule can help control drug costs, if not set too high, but other factors also contribute to those costs...read more.
LARSON'S SPOTLIGHT ON RECENT CASES
Thomas A. Robinson, J.D., our Feature National Columnist, is the co-author of Larson's Workers' Compensation Law (LexisNexis). 
  
Pennsylvania: Restaurant Franchisor Not Responsible for Comp Benefits of Uninsured Franchisee's Injured Worker. Where a Pennsylvania firm subcontracts a regular or recurrent part of its business to another, the firm is liable for workers' comp benefits to the subcontractor's...read more.

California: WCAB Had Jurisdiction to Determine NBA Player's Cumulative Trauma Claim. In spite of the fact that an NBA player was employed by a California professional basketball team for only one month at the end of his three-year career and played in only four regular season games during that career...read more.

Washington: Co-employee Immunity Applies Only When Defendant Acting in the Course of Employment. It was error for a trial court to grant summary judgment in favor of a defendant, on exclusive remedy grounds, where the plaintiff alleged he was struck by a vehicle driven...read more.

Maryland: State Trooper's Injuries in Personal Vehicle Not Barred by Going and Coming Rule. Applying Maryland's "free transportation" exception to the normal going and coming rule, a state appellate court affirmed an award of workers' comp benefits to a state trooper who sustained injuries...read more.
national & state news

ENEWSLETTER ARCHIVES

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