---
title: State of the States, May 18
description: Download IWP's weekly legislative wrap-up for information potential electronic prescribing requirements coming to Massachusetts.
---

[Injured Workers Pharmacy: News ](https://www.iwpharmacy.com/blog)

# [State of the States, May 18](https://www.iwpharmacy.com/blog/state-of-the-states-may-18)

 Written by [Danielle Jaffee](https://www.iwpharmacy.com/blog/author/danielle-jaffee) | May 21, 2018 12:00:00 PM

What's happening this week in workers' compensation? IWP's weekly legislative wrap-up, **State of the States**, keeps you up to date on important matters within the workers compensation and pharmacy arena.

**This week's legislative wrap-up contains updates including:**

- Mass. may be one step closer to electronic prescribing requirements
- Florida holding workshop on changes to dispute resolution process
- Kansas bill that would have allowed injured workers to choose their health care provider has died 

You'll also find workers' comp legislative updates for New York and New Hampshire.

<https://www.iwpharmacy.com/hubfs/Legislative%20Wrap%20Up%2005.18.18.pdf>

Stay connected to all relevant information in workers' compensation and pharmacy by subscribing to our weekly newsletter. For last week's wrap-up, please click [here](https://www.iwpharmacy.com/blog/state-of-the-states-may-11). 

[View full post](https://www.iwpharmacy.com/blog/state-of-the-states-may-18)

```json
{
  "@context" : "http://schema.org",
  "@type" : "BlogPosting",
  "author" : {
    "@type" : "Person",
    "name" : "Danielle Jaffee"
  },
  "dateModified" : "2021-09-20T13:38:59.980Z",
  "datePublished" : "2018-05-21T12:00:00Z",
  "headline" : "State of the States, May 18",
  "image" : {
    "@type" : "ImageObject",
    "height" : 836,
    "url" : "https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/706121/Opana_ER.jpg",
    "width" : 1254
  },
  "mainEntityOfPage" : "https://www.iwpharmacy.com/blog/state-of-the-states-may-18",
  "publisher" : {
    "@type" : "Organization",
    "logo" : {
      "@type" : "ImageObject",
      "height" : 60.0,
      "url" : "https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/706121/IWP_logo_RGB_150_96.png",
      "width" : 104.819275
    },
    "name" : "News"
  }
}
```