Sometimes, you may be unsure about the appropriateness of a medication for an injured worker based on their injury or medical history. We can help you navigate the grey zones of managing workers' compensation medications!
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Prescription drugs have accounted for a large portion of workers’ compensation medical costs for many years. Significant drivers of such expenses include:
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• Increased utilization
• Type of drugs prescribed
• Dramatic rise in physician-dispensed medications
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These drivers, coupled with new complications, such as an aging and increasingly obese workforce, make managing pharmacy expenses a challenging yet necessary priority for workers’ compensation payors. As a result of these complexities, managing all the grey zones associated with an injured worker’s medications has become increasingly difficult to navigate.
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A grey zone medication is any type of drug in which special attention is required to determine if it is appropriate for the injured worker based on compensability, relation to injury and medical history.
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Click here to download our white paper "Strategies for Navigating the Grey Zone Medication Maze". This paper identifies which medications are classified as grey zones, common drugs and best practices payors can use to manage utilization.
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