A recent decision by Florida’s First District Court of Appeal (DCA) has significant implications for physicians and other practitioners who dispense medications to injured workers. In No. 1D2023-0941, 2026 WL 513788 (Fla. 1st DCA Feb. 25, 2026), the court invalidated two rules issued by the Florida Department of Financial Services (DFS) that made it harder for workers’ compensation insurers to refuse to cover medications dispensed directly by physicians and other registered dispensing practitioners. The court held that these rules are an invalid exercise of DFS’s rulemaking authority. Accordingly, workers’ compensation insurers may require injured workers to use pharmacies as opposed to receiving medications directly from their treating providers.