by Insurance Business | May 14, 2014
In response to Insurance Business America's April 3 article featuring a CompPharma report on potential dangers in using compounded medications in workers' compensation, International Academy of Compounding Pharmacists CEO David G. Miller offers an alternative view.
Millions of patients across the U.S. rely upon compounded medications.
While we understand that CompPharma President Joseph Paduda is clearly watching a bottom line in relation to worker compensation costs, he is missing the big picture: the goal of worker compensation programs is to get workers back to work, and compounded medications – like commercially manufactured medications – play a role in returning these individuals to health and to work.
Compounded medications are vital for patients who have an allergy or sensitivity to a commercially manufactured drug or who need a drug in a particular strength or form. Moreover, compounded medications are essential for patients whose commercially manufactured drug is backordered or unavailable, which is increasingly common. Which drugs does Mr. Paduda want to restrict? Chemotherapy for the oncology patient whose commercially manufactured medication is unavailable? Liquid medications for patients on feeding tubes who cannot swallow oral medications? We are eager to know.
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In response to Insurance Business America's April 3 article featuring a CompPharma report on potential dangers in using compounded medications in workers' compensation, International Academy of Compounding Pharmacists CEO David G. Miller offers an alternative view.
Millions of patients across the U.S. rely upon compounded medications.
While we understand that CompPharma President Joseph Paduda is clearly watching a bottom line in relation to worker compensation costs, he is missing the big picture: the goal of worker compensation programs is to get workers back to work, and compounded medications – like commercially manufactured medications – play a role in returning these individuals to health and to work.
Compounded medications are vital for patients who have an allergy or sensitivity to a commercially manufactured drug or who need a drug in a particular strength or form. Moreover, compounded medications are essential for patients whose commercially manufactured drug is backordered or unavailable, which is increasingly common. Which drugs does Mr. Paduda want to restrict? Chemotherapy for the oncology patient whose commercially manufactured medication is unavailable? Liquid medications for patients on feeding tubes who cannot swallow oral medications? We are eager to know.
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