Opioids Situation Improves, But Workers’ Comp Pharmacy Faces New Challenges
Nikki Wilson, Pharm.D./MBA, discusses some of the particular challenges for pharmacies in the face of the nation's ongoing opioid epidemic and offers insight on how to handle them.
Ask The Pharmacist: Tobacco’s Impact on Wound and Bone Healing in Workers’ Comp
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Tobacco use and smoking has wide-ranging implications for health and overall individual wellbeing, including the ability to negatively impact medical treatment outcomes and wound healing processes. In the context of workers’ compensation, where injured employees undergo medical treatment and rehabilitation, understanding the impact of tobacco use is of particular importance.
Consultative & Customized Solutions Exceed Expectations
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A claim department, fatigued by change from recent workflow and regulatory changes, struggled to meet the needs of their customers and couldn’t keep up with pending bill and claim counts.
A Deeper Look at Utilizing Generic Drugs in Workers’ Comp
5 MIN READ
According to JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association, during a ten-year period branded pharmaceutical products in the U.S. increased 159% by list price and 60% by net price. In a continued effort to combat rising drug costs workers’ comp pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) look to substitute equivalent generic drugs for these more costly brand versions whenever possible.
Ask The Pharmacist: Drug Allergies Versus Side Effects in Workers’ Comp
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True medication allergies are rarer than side effects, but are potentially more dangerous, and are a result of the activation and response of the body’s immune system to an “insult” or “foreign body.” Allergies occur across a range of severities, from mild to life-threatening, and often only occur on the second exposure to the drug, food or substance that triggers it.
High-Cost Topical Pain Meds Continue to Plague Comp
Pegged as a problem by the workers compensation industry nearly a decade ago, dermatological creams are increasingly being prescribed at a disproportionate cost to manage soft-tissue injuries, acco