Physician dispensed meds
If you want to know why you are getting more physician bills with meds on them, it’s simple – physician dispensing generates big profits.
Read More...Insight, analysis & opinion from Joe Paduda
If you want to know why you are getting more physician bills with meds on them, it’s simple – physician dispensing generates big profits.
Read More...The two major third party billers have been on the block for a few months. The first round of queries went out to financial buyers and lately they’ve opened the process up to potential strategic buyers as well. Why?
Read More...AWP has long stood for “ain’t what’s paid”, and the old saw has been validated by documents made public during litigation in Boston earlier this year. First DataBank, one of the publishers of Average Wholesale Price data, had been sued … Continue reading What’s happening with AWP?
Read More...My firm’s third annual survey of prescription drug management in workers comp has been completed, and here are a few of the findings. 1. Drug costs increased slightly more than 10% last year, a “decrease in the rate of increase” … Continue reading Drugs in Workers Comp – Survey Report
Read More...For the dozen folks who find this remotely interesting – A few factoids and interesting tidbits from around the WC PBM world. The legislative efforts in California to address repackagers and dispensing of drugs by physicians appears to be stalled, … Continue reading Work comp drug talk round 2
Read More...The law of unintended consequences continues to dog the much-maligned Part D program. So far, seniors and states have been depicted as the primary victims of the program’s operational, structural, and marketing faults. Now there’s news that the program’s impact … Continue reading Pharmacists, Part D, and politics
Read More...Physicians and clinics are finding that dispensing drugs to patients can be a very profitable venture. Advocates are claiming that the practice improves the quality of care and ensures the patient receives the necessary scripts. Let’s take the quality of … Continue reading Repackagers’ margins
Read More...From Jim Andrews of Cypress Care comes a heads-up of an article by a former California state representative who’s endorsing the doctor-dispensing trend, noting that it has “small costs and huge benefits.” Perhaps to his consulting clients, who include the … Continue reading Repackagers and the myth of AWP
Read More...One of the emerging issues in workers comp is the dispensing of drugs by physicians on a grand scale. Clients (big WC payers) are seeing over half of their drug costs in California coming from doc-dispensed drugs. While that sounds … Continue reading Docs as drug dealers
Read More...My post of a couple weeks ago on Third Party Billers (TPBs) generated a good bit of heat and even some light amongst interested readers. It has also caused a few payers to examine their own reimbursement policies in some … Continue reading Third party billers and usual and customary
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