W.Va. alters settlement structure; national picture remains murky

This month's decision by West Virginia's attorney general to give state and local governments direct control over the spending of opioid settlement funds will likely inspire discussion of how best to structure the distribution of these monies nationally. But two health care leaders who have closely watched settlement funding decisions in the states told ADAW that what is more important than system structure is decision‐making transparency — of which they have seen too little around the country so far.