Carriers and PBMs Want Tighter Controls of Compounded Drugs

By Michael Whiteley, Southern Bureau ChiefPharmacy benefit managers and insurance carriers are calling on the newly created Oklahoma Workers' Compensation Commission to tighten controls of compounded drugs in its proposed closed drug formulary.The American Insurance Association, the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America, PBM consortium CompPharma and PBMs MyMatrixx, PMSI and HealtheSystems have urged the commission to make changes to emergency rules it plans to adopt Jan. 16 that would require preauthorization for all compound drugs administered to injured workers.Proposed Rul...