Insurance Committee Schedules Hearing on Formulary, Integrated Care Bills

The Assembly Insurance Committee will hear testimony later this month on bills that would implement a drug formulary for California's workers' compensation system and establish a pilot project to measure the effectiveness of integrating work comp coverage with general heath care. Assembly Bill 1124, by Assemblyman Henry Perea, D-Fresno, would order the Division of Workers' Compensation to adopt a prescription drug formulary. A formulary, which is essentially just a list of approved drugs, could save between $102 million and $541 million a year, according to a California Workers&#...