Danielle Jaffee
Connecticut - The Connecticut legislature kicked off the 2021 session with numerous workers compensation related bills, but few are seeing movement.
HB 6478 is one of the few exceptions. The bill, which changes certain workers compensation payments and establishes a COVID-19 presumption for all workers in the state so long as they did not work from home in the 14 days prior to the positive test, has picked up numerous co-sponsors over the last two weeks and is schedule for public hearing this week.
California - The California Workers Compensation Institute released a new study finding the use of NSAIDs now significantly outpaces the use of opioids in the treatment of workers compensation. NSAIDs account for one third of drugs dispensed in the state s system and prescriptions of opioids were down over 20% from 2011. California adopted a drug formulary back in 2018.
03/14/21
WorkersCompensation.com
Oakland, CA (WorkersCompensation.com) – The wave of COVID-19 claims that hit the California workers compensation system at the end of 2020 has subsided – at least for the time being – as the number of claims reported to the state Division of Workers Compensation (DWC) for February fell to the lowest level in a year and the projected ultimate claim count for February came in at 4,533 cases, down nearly 90 percent from the record 43,158 claims projected for December.
The latest figures from the California Workers Compensation Institute s COVID-19/Non-COVID-19 Interactive Application show that after surging to an all-time high in December, the monthly COVID-19 claim count fell by more than 50% in January, a decrease that coincided with the steep drop in new coronavirus cases in the state. Claim counts from December through February are still incomplete as additional claims for those months are still being reported, but the COVID-19 claim t
Report: California Comp Virus Claim Volume Plummeted in February March 12, 2021
The wave of COVID-19 claims that hit the California workers’ compensation system at the end of 2020 has subsided for the time being as the number of claims reported to the state Division of Workers’ Compensation for February fell to the lowest level in a year, an analysis by the California Workers’ Compensation Institute Shows.
The CWCI report shows the projected ultimate claim count for February came in at 4,533 cases, down nearly 90% from the record 43,158 claims projected for December.
The figures from CWCI’s COVID-19/Non-COVID-19 Interactive Application show that after surging to an all-time high in December, the monthly COVID-19 claim count fell by more than 50% in January, a decrease that coincided with the steep drop in new coronavirus cases in the state.
03/11/21
WorkersCompensation.com
Oakland, CA (WorkersCompensation.com) – A California Workers Compensation Institute (CWCI) study finds that nonsteroidal anti-inflammatories (NSAIDs) now account for more than a third of all drugs dispensed to injured workers in California, triple the proportion noted for opioids. The study also reveals that although most NSAIDs that are used are inexpensive, and utilization has been flat since the state s evidence-based prescription drug formulary took effect in 2018, NSAIDs share of the total drug spend has soared from 14.2% to 23.5%, largely driven by increased payments for two low-volume, high-priced drugs that are exempt from prospective utilization review (UR) and that lack price controls.
Nursing Home Workers Died of COVID, Failed to Tell Watchdogs
California’s health department regularly updates a list of COVID infections and deaths at nursing homes. But only half of listed facilities where employees have died from the disease have reported the death to Cal/OSHA. by Jason Pohl, Dale Kasler, and Ryan Sabalow, The Sacramento Bee / February 18, 2021 TNS
(TNS) - Feb. 18 A year into the pandemic, California s workplace safety watchdog doesn t know how many nursing home workers have contracted COVID-19 on the job and died, a Sacramento Bee review of state records shows.
California s health department regularly updates a list of COVID-19 infections and deaths at nursing homes. But only about half of those listed facilities where employees have died from the disease have bothered to report the death to Cal/ OSHA, the agency in charge of enforcing worker safety, according to the state records.