Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Must Read!! ExpressScripts Report: Compounded drugs now rank as the third-most-expensive therapy class on a PMPY basis, displacing high blood pressure medications, which had ranked among the top three most-expensive traditional therapy classes for at least a decade.

Cost of Inflation for Compounded Ingredients In 2013 and 2014, spend for compound medications escalated rapidly. Compounded drugs now rank as the third-most-expensive therapy class on a PMPY basis, displacing high blood pressure medications, which had ranked among the top three most-expensive traditional therapy classes for at least a decade. Compounding was the primary manner in which prescriptions were prepared until the 1950s, but mass pharmaceutical production had supplanted this method by the 1970s. The volume of compounded prescriptions continued to drop over time, representing less than 1% of all prescriptions by the early 2000s,6 and their share is similar today.

Express Scripts report (PDF)

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