Payers Pan Governor's Opioid Guidelines

Business interests and even some workers’ comp attorneys belittled Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf’s new opioid prescription guidelines for workers’ comp claimants, deriding them as toothless recommendations that lack the force of law. In what should be an easy political win — battling opioids in a state more burdened than most by the opioid scourge — Wolf has suffered a political bruising on the workers’ comp front. His announcement Monday of the new guidelines only served to give his critics another shot at him. The furor is the result of news ...