CompPharma Report Details Perils of Compound Drugs

Workers’ compensation payments for compounded medications has been falling over the last two years, according to recent reports from pharmacy benefit managers, but a new paper from PBM consortium CompPharma warns that compounds are still an issue of concern. Compounded drugs are custom formulations that often appear in workers’ comp as topical pain creams. But they frequently come with exorbitant prices and, even though their individual ingredients may have Food and Drug Administration approval, the mixture of ingredients do not. And while the CompPharma report acknowledges ...