Study Shows How Dispensing Reforms Helped in Some States, but Not Others

Legislation passed in 2014 designed to curb physician-dispensed medications has had a significant effect on cost, but perhaps not as much as lawmakers had hoped, thanks to new pharmacies that sprang up to fill expensive compound-drug prescriptions. That’s the finding of a study by the Workers Compensation Research Institute that was examined Thursday in a webinar. The session offered a more detailed look at the study, highlights of which were released in May. The report looked at data from more than 140,000 prescriptions per year written over a four-year period,&nbs...