Workers’ compensation carriers could gain access to California’s prescription drug-monitoring database, under a recently amended bill.
Assemblyman Evan Low, D-Silicon Valley, on Wednesday amended AB 528 to add language that would require the Department of Justice to adopt rules allowing comp carriers to access the Controlled Substances Utilization Review and Evaluation System, or CURES.
The bill would require the department to adopt by Jan. 1, 2021, regulations identifying “the conditions under which an insurer providing workers’ compensation coverage may access ...
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