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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?

WCRI’s latest report on physician dispensing confirms what we weary soldiers have known for years; the physician dispensing industry is way better at figuring out how to screw employers and taxpayers than workers’ comp payers and regulators are at stopping … Continue reading Why be a crook when you can be a dispensing doc?

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

There is NO reason, no rationale, no logic behind docs dispensing drugs to workers comp claimants.   Proponents claim it is better care, leading to speedier recovery and lower costs. We long suspected the opposite is true; that is, claimants … Continue reading Yet more evidence doc dispensing is a disaster