Drug Costs Send Workers Comp Bills Soaring Insurers hard put to contain expenses with utilization of medications on the rise
Increased use of costly prescription pharmaceuticals has been having a greater financial impact on the workers compensation system than rising drug prices, but that trend could be ending, a leading data group reports.
The research by the Boca Raton-based National Council on Compensation Insurance also revealed that the recently recalled anti-inflammatory drug Vioxx was third among the top-10 most costly prescribed drugs paid for by workers comp insu
rers from 1997 to 2002.
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