Insight, analysis & opinion from Joe Paduda
After the release of its much-awaited update on physician dispensing in workers comp, WCRI found itself under verbal assault from physician dispensing company Automated Healthcare Solutions. AHCS, perhaps the largest firm in the business (and partially owned by Boston-based ABRY … Continue reading WCRI – under assault by physician dispensing company
Read More...In Illinois, physician dispensed drugs accounted for almost two-thirds of all drug costs in 2010-11. Same in Florida. Maryland – 47%; Pennsylvania – 27%; Tennessee 25%; Michigan – 22%. The data are from WCRI’s just-released study on Physician Dispensing in … Continue reading Physician dispensing in comp – growth is exploding
Read More...Over the last couple weeks I’ve fielded several calls from automobile insurance companies seeking information about the big drug bills they’ve been getting for physician dispensed drugs. This is more of an issue in states with high dollar coverage for … Continue reading Physician dispensing and auto insurance
Read More...Inflated costs for employers and insurers, higher taxes for state residents, and riskier medical treatment for injured workers – all are on the horizon if Connecticut Workers’ Compensation Commission Chairman Mastropietro allows physicians to dispense repackaged drugs to injured workers. … Continue reading Physician dispensing comes to Connecticut
Read More...One of the most powerful firms in the physician dispensing business is sending hundreds of thousands of dollars to elected officials in Florida. [sub req] The donations, to individual politicians and their affiliated organizations, come as the Florida Senate is … Continue reading Physician dispensing in Florida – Can money buy bad policy?
Read More...Physician dispensing in Florida is back in the news, as we await with bated breath the outcome of this session’s legislative battle. On one side is the Florida Medical Association and Automated Healthcare Solutions, the Miramar company that provides software, … Continue reading Physician dispensing – the latest from Florida
Read More...A friend who happens to be a practicing physician here in Connecticut was approached recently by physician dispensing firm Rx Development with a great offer. The physician could dispense medications right from his/her own office, at no cost and no … Continue reading Physician dispensing – boy do we have a deal for you!
Read More...NCCI released its 2011 pharmacy study yesterday, and there’s not much in the way of good news. Here are a few of the major take-aways from the research, which used 2009 data. – per-claim drug costs grew by 12% in … Continue reading Work Comp pharmacy in 2009 – more dollars, more opioids, more physician dispensing
Read More...WCRI’s just published another in their excellent series of reports benchmarking workers comp costs and outcomes in key states. This latest, entitled “PRESCRIPTION BENCHMARKS, 2ND EDITION: TRENDS AND INTERSTATE COMPARISONS”, provides additional insight into the difference in cost between drugs … Continue reading Physician dispensing – Exactly how much more does it cost?
Read More...There’s a good bit of confusion out there about the two physician dispensing bills on the table in Florida. There are two separate issues here that are often conflated in the media. First are the pill mills – those storefronts … Continue reading Florida’s dispensing legislation clarified
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