CompPharma Survey Finds Opioids Top Payers' Concerns

Opioids were the top cost driver and the biggest area of concern for payers, followed by repackaged drugs dispensed by physicians, according to the 2012 Survey of Prescription Drug Management released by CompPharma on Wednesday.“That the dramatic increase in physician dispensing and payers’ concern about implications for patient safety, disability duration and claims costs aren’t the utmost concern to payers is evidence of the seriousness of the opioid issue,” CompPharma President Joe Paduda wrote in a summary of survey results. “Payers are beginning to grasp just...