A new report shows that nearly 70 percent of federally mandated and approved California Workers’ Compensation Medicare Set-Aside settlements for injured workers require funding for decades of opioid use, often at dangerously high levels and in conjunction with other high-risk drugs.
The report from the California Workers’ Compensation Institute issued on Monday looks at these set-asides. WCMSAs are insurer-paid plans in which claims administrators allocate funds from workers’ comp settlements to cover future medical expenses arising from a work injury that might otherwise be paid by Medicare.
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