Compounded medicines have uncertain benefits and are a risk to patients, according to research on compounded medicines released Tuesday by CompPharma titled "Compounding is Confounding Workers' Compensation."CompPharma is a consortium of workers' compensation pharmacy benefit managers. Its president, Joe Paduda, said insurance companies and other workers' compensation payers are struggling with the increase in compounded drug prescriptions and their high costs.A compounded drug is a pharmaceutical that results from the mixing of two or more ingredients, excluding flavorin...
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