Comp Division Proposes Changes to Pharmacy Benefit Rules

The Texas Division of Workers’ Compensation posted proposed changes to its pharmacy benefit rules that remove obsolete provisions and update reference language for consistency with other regulations. “When the rules were originally adopted, they included transition provisions to move workers’ compensation to a closed formulary system,” the division said in a statement. “Those transition provisions are no longer necessary, so the proposed amendments remove them.” Other changes include nonsubstantive editorial and formatting updates, the division s...