Costly Prescriptions Jack Up WC Bills
A greater use of pricier painkillers and other prescription drugs to treat employees hurt on the job is sending workers compensation costs soaring, an insurer study has found.
Ken Martino, senior vice president of Specialty Risk Services, a subsidiary of The Hartford Financial Services Group, said that “the use of drugs and a shift to more costly drugs,” was behind a 67 percent cost increase his company has tracked over the past two years.
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