Doctors, Insurance Groups OK With Planned Prescribing Audits

A plan by the Texas Division of Workers' Compensation to audit physicians' prescribing habits in coming months is not such a bitter pill to swallow, and is in line with the state's vaunted efforts to curb opioid abuse, physician and insurance groups said. "When the Legislature overhauled workers' compensation in 2005, part of its direction was to give the division the tools to address outliers," said Bobby Hillert, executive director of the Texas Orthopaedic Association. "This is one of the tools. It's in the statute, and there's been no suggestion ...