Funding CURES Trumps Expanding Access

By Greg Jones, Western Bureau ChiefSACRAMENTO, Calif. – Finding a way to pay for California’s prescription drug-monitoring program and improve the database is more important than expanding access to workers’ compensation payers because the program will be eliminated if funding isn’t secured in 110 days, according to the state senator who introduced legislation to continue funding the program.Sam Mahood, communications director for Sen. Mark DeSaulnier, said Monday that his boss wants to get finances in order for the Controlled Substances Utilization Review and Evaluatio...