Sunday, October 13, 2013

Second Question of the Day October 13, 2013 How many others states will be drawn into the worker's compensation compounding drug pain management issues that appear to be being investigated in California.

"Landmark was one of several companies that had made millions of dollars in recent years by navigating a tricky corner of the state’s workers’ compensation system. Ahmed was an advocate of “compound drugs” — drugs whose ingredients have been combined, mixed, or altered by a pharmacist — and Landmark made money by buying accounts receivable from medical providers who prescribed compounded topical pain creams. In California, drug compounding was known as a physician profit center in the workers’ compensation system, and state lawmakers made a push in 2011 to remove some of the financial incentives associated with compound drugs in the system."  Quoted from here

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