Flash Report: Repackaged Drugs Hinder Reform Savings

By: Workers' Comp Executive - The journal of record for the workers' comp community in California.

Doctors who evade fee schedules by dispensing repackaged drugs to injured workers out of their offices is one of the main reasons that savings estimates from the 2002 pharmaceutical fee schedule have failed to materialize, according to a study by the California Workers Compensation Institute. The study says that despite the fact that repackaged drugs are only 30 percent of California workers compensation prescriptions they represent more than 43 percent of the pharmacy dollars billed, and

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