Payers Spending About 14% Less on Opioids, CompPharma Says

A nearly 14% decrease in spending on opioids helped fuel an almost 10% drop in overall drug spending last year, according to soon-to-be released results from a survey of workers’ comp payers. The full results of the annual CompPharma survey are expected to be released this fall. But CompPharma president Joe Paduda gave a sneak peek into the survey results in a post on his Managed Care Matters blog on Wednesday, calling the results “big news.” CompPharma is a consortium of workers’ comp pharmacy benefit managers that share data for statistical purposes. “Work co...