Today’s issue of WorkCompRecap features the release of new research from WCRI that found that new regulations in Georgia reduced prices paid for physician-dispensed drugs by 22-36 percent, and many physicians continued to dispense prescriptions to injured workers.
The reforms, effective in April 2011, capped the reimbursement amount for physician-dispensed prescriptions to the average wholesale price (AWP) of the original drug product, and according to WCRI, prices paid to physicians fell significantly. The average price of physician-dispensed hydrocodone-acetaminophen decreased by 36 percent, for example.
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