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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

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

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

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

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

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

A suit has been filed by Arizona’s Attorney General accusing 42 drug manufacturers of inflating Average Wholesale Prices on drugs sold to physicians. According to an article in the Arizona Republic, at least 14 other states are also pursuing action … Continue reading Suit filed against drug manufacturers for price manipulation