P&T Committee Meeting Jan. 22

The committee empaneled to advise the California Division of Workers’ Compensation on evidence-based changes to the prescription drug formulary will discuss opioids as well as the “exempt” and “non-exempt” classifications during a Jan. 22 meeting. Dr. Steven Feinberg, a physical medicine rehabilitation and pain specialist in Palo Alto, will lead the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee discussion about how formulary drugs are classified. Rules the division adopted to implement the formulary allow medications designated as “exempt” to be dispensed ...