Today’s issue of WorkCompRecap features Texas Commissioner of Workers’ Comp Ron Bordelon’s recent testimony to the Texas House Committee on Public Health on recent declines in the number and cost of opioid drug prescriptions in the state’s workers’ comp system as a result of the adoption of new pharmacy rules.
According to Bordelon, since the adoption of the closed pharmacy formulary for workers’ comp, the number of “not-recommended” or “N-drug” prescriptions have declined 74% and the cost of those prescriptions has dropped 82% from 2010 to 2011. Opioid drug prescriptions have also fallen 10% since the implementation of the formulary.
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