Stakeholders Object to Decision to Leave Physician Dispensing Alone for 2 Years

How prevalent is physician dispensing in Maryland’s workers’ compensation system? Depends on whom you ask, with a yawning disparity between different study results. But a group of stakeholders have placed their faith in data from the Maryland Workers’ Compensation Commission and the state’s carrier of last resort and decided to table any lawmaking action on physician dispensing. The decision doesn’t sit well with some stakeholders. Citing MWCC data showing a drop in the prevalence of prescriptions dispensed by physicians in 2012 and 2013, Sens. Kathy Klausmeier ...