OWCA Director Decries House Passage of Formulary Bill

The head of the Office of Workers’ Compensation Administration has come out against House Bill 592, which passed the House last week and would establish a drug formulary with the Official Disability Guidelines model. Sheral Kellar said in a statement to WorkCompCentral that prescribing decisions and medications are “best left” to treating physicians. “A pharmacy formulary is a tool that can be used to address the opioid issue. But it is not the only tool. In fact, Dr. Marcus Dillender, a Ph.D. from W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, suggests that ...