N.H. Bill Part of Vendor's National Push for 'Pharmacy Choice'

By David Dankwa, WorkCompCentral correspondentNew Hampshire could become the next major battleground in a fight over whether injured workers should be able to choose where they get their prescription drugs.Last year, New York state lawmakers rejected a bill that sought to repeal a provision of the 2007 workers' compensation reform that had stripped claimants of their right to choose their own pharmacy.Unfazed, proponents of so-called pharmacy choice legislation, led by Injured Workers Pharmacy or IWP, a national mail-order pharmacy specializing in prescriptions for injured workers, pushed ...