Auditors: Repackaged Drugs Added $515,000 to Schools' Comp Costs

By Michael Whiteley, Eastern Bureau ChiefPhysicians who sold their own drugs to injured workers added $515,000 to the cost of the self-insured workers' compensation program in the Miami-Dade County school district and underscore a growing problem for the system, the district's inspector general warned in an audit released last November.Inspector General Christopher Mazzela said that Prescription Partners, a subsidiary of Automated Health Care Solutions (AHCS), Third Party Solutions and Working Rx all charged rates well above the payment rates established through the system's pharma...