Researchers Review Struggles to Control Rising Costs of Drugs in Comp Systems

ORLANDO, Fla. – Efforts to slow the explosive growth in pharmaceutical spending by workers’ compensation carriers throughout the country have met with limited success, according to a pair of researchers speaking on the final day of the National Council on Compensation Insurance 2015 Annual Issues Symposium. Despite evidence-based prescribing guidelines, statutory and regulatory caps on reimbursement rates and even outright bans on dispensing some medications, the cost of medications dispensed to injured workers in states, including California, Illinois and Florida, have been only ...