Marsh Published Guide to Reducing Prescription Drug Costs

Marsh, an international brokerage and risk management firm, has released a briefing suggesting strategies to cut down on medical costs by targeting specific areas of prescription drug use. The paper offers a particular focus on physician-dispensed and compounded drugs, two controversial avenues of delivering prescriptions that research has shown tend to increase costs. Physician dispensing involves doctors prescribing a drug to a patient and then filling that prescription in their own office, while compounding involves pharmacies creating novel formulations of medications. Compounding can of...