Thursday, February 21, 2013

Bill Deadline in California Legislature Promises a Few Insurance Issues By Don Jergler | February 20, 2013


Compounding drugs may be another workers’ comp-related issue that warrants a bill.
A report on compounding drugs released earlier this month reveals the effects of another workers’ comp-related law enacted at the beginning of 2012. Price controls were created via Assembly Bill 378, authored by lawmaker Jose Solorio, D-Santa Ana, to address a rise in the utilization and cost of compounded drugs in workers’ comp.
But while the law, which took effect at the beginning of 2012, may have helped push compounded drug prescriptions down from 3.1 percent in 2011 to 2 percent of California workers’ comp prescriptions in 2012, those compounders seemed to have more than made up for it.
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