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It sure looks like they/you have. WCRI’s latest report finds: Physician-dispensed drugs (PDDs) accounted for more than half of drug costs per claim in Q1 2020 in four states – Florida, Georgia, Illinois, and Maryland. In 12 states, doc-dispensed dermatological … Continue reading Have work comp payers given up on physician dispensing?

The last session at WCRI focused on my least favorite topics – doc dispensed drugs and opioids. note findings are preliminary and subject to change. From Dongchun Wang, doc dispensing. My takeaways. Price-focused controls don’t work to control physician dispensing. … Continue reading Physician dispensing, opiods and efforts to control same

The cost of physician dispensing is far above the outrageous premiums the dispensers charge.  The real cost includes: longer disability duration higher medical expense – over and above the excess cost of drugs higher indemnity expense more and longer use … Continue reading Physician dispensing in workers’ comp is killing your financials

Yesterday’s meeting in Boston was very, very productive.  The audience included trade groups, insurers, TPAs, large employers, physicians, researchers, regulators, analysts, PBMs, and media, all focused on the single issue of physician dispensing. Among the sessions was a report on … Continue reading Report from the Physician Dispensing Summit