Drug Price Increases Moderating, but Impact Not Even

While workers’ compensation drug cost inflation continues to moderate, different payers have widely differing results, according to a report by Health Strategy Associates (HSA), released Monday.The “Fifth Annual Survey of Prescription Drug Management in Workers’ Compensation” indicates pharmacy cost inflation has decreased to 4.9% from 6.5 % last year and from 17.8% in 2003. However, individual payers’ inflation rates varied dramatically from a decrease of 12.8% to an increase of 21.8%.“Last year we saw that larger, more sophisticated payers experienced lowe...