Check Out the Point-Counterpoint on Controversial Workers' Comp Drug Repackaging Bill

Submitted by Nancy Smith on February 21, 2012 - 6:01pm

The insurance industry claims physicians overprice for dispensing drugs to workers' comp patients in their own offices. Physicians say no we don't, we keep prices as low as we're able considering we're not Walgreen's, which "buys in" pills by the million.

A meeting of the Senate Health Regulation Committee, postponed last week, has been rescheduled for 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, 412 Knott Building.

In the meantime, a pertinent point-counterpoint of letters/comments has developed at the end of a column on the subject in today's Sunshine State News. If the subject interests you, you might want to have a look.

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