Physician-Dispensing Reform Hopes Alive for next Legislative Session

Members of Wisconsin’s Workers' Compensation Advisory Council will continue their push for physician-dispensing legislation this year after a bill containing proposals they supported failed to move out of the Assembly Labor Committee last session. Among other reforms, Assembly Bill 711 called for physician-dispensed repackaged drugs to not be billed higher than the average wholesale price listed in the Red Book of Drug Topics, published by Thomson Reuters. Republican Rep. Daniel Knodl, chairman of the Assembly Labor Committee, said the bill never made it ou...