Mesa Pharmacy Clears $100M in Lien Claims for 2016

California drug compounder Mesa Pharmacy said it stopped filling prescriptions on a lien basis earlier this year, but the company is still pouring new liens into the state’s workers’ compensation system. The 9,196 liens the Irvine pharmacy filed in the first six months of the year account for 4.3% of the 214,000 liens the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau says were filed during the period. This month alone, the company filed 1,030 liens with a total claimed value of $7.25 million. It filed 12,247 liens with a total claimed value of $104.2 million since the start...