Fourth Question of the Day July 5, 2014 How much as the the frequency of prescribing and reimbursement claims for compounded drugs added to overall patient health care cost? Which brings me back to a question I posed previously how much have compounded medications driven up the cost of manufactured-FDA approved drugs and other health care cost all so compounding pharmcists and pharmacies could profit?

According to Thomas Kaye RPh, MBA with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Oklahoma, the frequency of prescribing and reimbursement claims for compounded drugs has been increasing for many plans in recent years—he cautions that incidents associated with the use of such unapproved products “add to overall patient cost, as well as morbidity and mortality.'' [45]

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