Although our nation is currently focused on the COVID-19 pandemic, the opioid abuse epidemic continues to claim many lives.  According to data from the...

  Prescription drugs can make up a large part of a Medicare Set-Aside.  Since Medicare prices future prescription drugs using average wholesale price, the ultimate...

  Almost every Workers’ Compensation Medicare Set-Aside (WCMSA) includes future diagnostic imaging studies, usually x-rays and MRIs.  For most work injuries, and especially orthopedic ones,...

  For those of us who have been doing Medicare Set-Asides for over a decade, CMS’ pricing of prescription drugs has been a difficult pill...

  On April 13, 2020, the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission created an emergency amendment to Rule 9030.70, expanding the Commission’s Rules of Evidence to include...