Panel Eyes Improvements to Prescription Drug Monitoring Program

By Bill Kidd, Central Bureau ChiefSome Texas workers’ compensation system participants want to upgrade the state’s prescription drug monitoring program to help curb problems with controlled medications in workers’ comp and society in general – and are looking at initiatives in New York and Oklahoma as possible models.Members of a panel at the Insurance Council of Texas workers’ compensation conference last week discussed possible approaches for dealing with the growing problem of prescription drug abuse. Cathy DeWitt, governmental affairs manager for the Texas Ass...