Paduda: Why Be a Crook When You Can Be a Dispensing Doc?

The Workers' Compensation Research Institute's latest report on physician dispensing confirms what we weary soldiers have known for years: The physician dispensing industry is way better at figuring out how to screw employers and taxpayers than workers’ comp payers and regulators are at stopping them. We’ve tried eliminating the upcharge for repackaged drugs; they came up with custom-manufactured medications. Fail. Here’s the summary from WCRI: The mechanism involves the creation of an opportunity to assign a much higher average wholesale price to these new-st...