12/17/2014
The price of medication is a growing concern among workers' compensation payers despite declining drug costs a consortium of pharmacy benefit management companies found in a recent survey.
CompPharma asked 25 workers' compensation payers to rate how big a problem drug costs are on a scale of
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01/10/2013
Opioids were the top cost driver and the biggest area of concern for payers followed by repackaged drugs dispensed by physicians according to the 2012 Survey of Prescription Drug Management released by CompPharma on Wednesday.
That the dramatic increase in physician dispensing and payers
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11/13/2019
Drug-pricing transparency has become a top concern for workers comp payers according to a report released Tuesday by research and consulting firm CompPharma.
The report compiles responses from 31 respondents to a CompPharma survey who included representatives of workers compensation
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04/02/2014
Compounded medicines have uncertain benefits and are a risk to patients according to research on compounded medicines released Tuesday by CompPharma titled "Compounding is Confounding Workers' Compensation."
CompPharma is a consortium of workers' compensation pharmacy benefit managers. Its
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09/27/2021
workers physicians and insurers have relied less on opioids as treatment overall comp pharmacy costs have decreased by 38 about 1.8 billion over the past decade according to the latest Survey of Prescription Drug Management in Workers Compensation from CompPharma.
Despite some reports
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05/27/2021
The Workers Compensation Research Institute's latest report finds
Physician-dispensed drugs PDDs
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08/10/2023
latest report finds
Physician-dispensed drugs PDDs accounted for more than half of drug costs per claim in
Category: Industry Insights
01/05/2015
Generic drugs sometimes cost 90 less than their brand-name equivalents and the workers compensation industry appears to be taking advantage of the savings.
Percentage of prescriptions filled with generic drugs is up over 5
In a survey of 25 workers compensation payers the pharmacy
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12/18/2014
top 25 most expensive medications in the industry are opioids. OxyContin an extended-release pill took the top spot and accounted for 8.5 of the total medical spend that year.
In a survey of 25 workers compensation payers released Dec. 8 the pharmacy benefit management consortium CompPharma
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04/06/2016
' compensation payers the company said in a news release.
Express Scripts said its the fifth year in a row that workers comp spending on opioids has decreased.
Thats just terrific said Joe Paduda president of PBM consortium CompPharma of which Express Scripts is a member. The scary thing is 40
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