Report Finds Pricing, Oversight Issues in Federal Comp Drug Program

A U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Inspector General audit of its Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs found that the program failed to secure adequate pricing and oversight of prescriptions, resulting in $321.3 million in excess spending. In a report issued Tuesday, the audit found numerous problems with the Federal Employees’ Compensation Act program, which covers federal and postal workers, including that it “lacked a pharmacy benefit manager to help contain costs and had not determined if alternative prescription drug pricing methodologies would be more com...