In workers' comp pharmacy management, opioids often get the lion's share of attention, and for good reason. As a nation, we're still challenged to ensure safe and effective application of prescriptions amid an opioid epidemic. But numbers are moving in the right direction. While opioids continue to be the most-utilized therapeutic class among our injured workers in 2022, there were declines in both utilization (7.7%) and cost (14.7%) per claim, and there's been a steady decline for the past eight years in the morphine equivalent dose (MED) prescribed to patients.
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