Insurers and Employers Begin Push for Physician-Dispensing Reform

By Michael Whiteley, Eastern Bureau ChiefThe Pennsylvania House Labor & Industry Committee is scheduled to take its first look this Wednesday at legislation that would cap the price of repackaged drugs dispensed to injured workers and limit physicians to dispensing a five-day supply of drugs following a worker's injury.House Insurance Committee Vice Chairwoman Marguerite Quinn, R-Doylestown, filed House Bill 1846 on Nov. 18 at the request of the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry, the National Federation of Independent Business and the Insurance Federation of Pennsylvania. T...