Injured Workers Pharmacy Blog

Being injured on the job can cause more than just a physical injury. By being out of work and home recovering, you may be experiencing a financial strain without your normal week-to-week paycheck.

In recent years, Telemedicine has given sick or injured individuals the ability to access the services of a doctor or health care professional without the hassle and burden of an actual doctor’s visit. Through virtual visits patients can consult face to face with doctors through laptops, tablets and smartphones.

New York has joined eleven other states in adopting their own workers’ comp drug formulary. The New York formulary, which goes into effect beginning December 2019, will apply to all prescriptions regardless of date of injury.

In 2019, the podcast world is rich, varied, and complex. There’s a deep bucket of knowledge being discussed and delivered over radio waves and streaming services. Unfortunately, that rich and complex world can become overwhelming fast. How do you know which podcast to subscribe to? Which hosts will you relate to the most? And how do you know you will even find the content meaningful? 

You don’t expect to be hurt on the job. Trainings, safety procedures, and a strong company focus on wellness are all efforts that company’s count on to keep their employees safe and out of harms way. Yet, people still get hurt at work.

As we turn our calendar pages to July and officially start the beginning of summer, seven states and the District of Columbia are still in session. Thousands of bills have been introduced across the country, making the 2019 session one for the books. Although we cannot predict the future, these are hot topics that politicians and legislators are continuing to discuss.

Meet Eric Kelso. Eric is a Supervisor of Claims here at IWP and oversees a team of dedicated Claims Resolution Specialists.

Unfortunately, there is no handbook for workers who have been injured on the job. No playbook that tells you who to call, what to do, or which questions to ask. And, given that each workers’ comp claim is different, it’s difficult to compare your work injury to that of a friend or family members.

Meet Yarimar Feliciano-Rivera. You may not recognize her face, but Yarimar is the voice behind many of the phone calls made to our patients – you may have even spoken to her yourself!

With the 2019 legislative session well under way across the country, a flurry of first responder bills have been introduced from Connecticut to Montana.  When it comes to first responder legislation, the focus is on two areas: cancer presumptions and mental health coverage.