Rule Review Means Changes to Opioid Prescribing Regs

The Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation is accepting public comments on changes to a range of rules, including those regarding health care providers, the drug formulary and reimbursement for opioid-based medication. The bureau is required to review its regulations every five years, and it has completed the first part of Administrative Code Chapters 4123-6, the BWC said in a bulletin. The changes clarify some rules and add new sections to others. Among other changes, the proposed rules would: Make health care providers ineligible to participate in the managed care program and tre...