Clinical Blogs

As the workers’ comp and pharmaceuticals industries continue to make progress in the fight against opioid misuse, it’s important to remain vigilant around new pain treatments that are filling this vacuum.

On Wednesday, January 27th, myMatrixx Chief Clinical Officer, Phil Walls, will join the Hartford’s Chief Medical Officer, Adam L. Seidner, in a virtual session for the National Workers’ Compensation and Disability Conference (NWCDC).

A Message from myMatrixx President, Mike Cirillo. myMatrixx works hard, every day, to be your trusted partner for better workers’ compensation PBM support. That means bringing innovative solutions to your problems, identifying opportunities to improve the health and well-being of your injured...

myMatrixx Clinical Account Executive Shanea McKinney is a regular speaker for RIMS, the risk management society, and their Professional Exchange of Risk Knowledge, or PERK, program.

Featured in the NWCDC CompTalk series, Phil’s newest presentation is “Risky Business: the Journey of Fentanyl from Licit to Illicit Drug,” offering a wide-ranging history of both the pharmacology of the drug and its path to becoming one of the world’s most dangerous illegal substances

myMatrixx Director of Clinical Pharmacy, Michael Nguyen PharmD, has a new article on WorkersCompensation.com’s regular Expert’s View feature discussing the importance of early engagement in behavioral health for injured workers.

In a new article for Risk & Insurance, myMatrixx Director of Clinical Pharmacy, Michael Nguyen, and Chief Clinical Officer, Phil Walls, discuss the importance of addressing behavioral health issues in workers compensation claims.

When the COVID-19 pandemic became a serious concern all the way back in March, businesses had to find a way to adapt. Since it is abundantly clear that this is in no way a short-term problem, it is all the more critical to start to look back and analyze some of the data from the earlier months. ...

As claims age, the percentage of spend for prescription drugs increases. Further, as claims age, the likelihood that the injured worker becomes a Medicare beneficiary as a result of age or disability increases. The result, high prescription drug costs allocated in the Medicare Set-Aside (MSA) become...

The opioid epidemic has become a national public health problem. Although, the opioid epidemic is being addressed nationally and drug overdose deaths decreased by 4% from 2017 to 2018, still more than 67,000 people died from drug overdoses in 2018, and almost 70% involved a prescription or illicit opioid....