A study has found the acceleration of prescription drug costs for workers' compensation systems and other payers is finally showing signs of moderating, but experts suggest the positive trend may not continue.
The slowing of drug cost inflation was reported by the National Council on Compensation Insurance, which said that in 2004--their most recent data--the rate of increase was 8.2 percent, down two points from 2003 when the rate was 10.2 percent and nearly half of the 14 percent rate of increase in 2002.
George Furlong, vice president of business development and analytics at Choice Medical Management Services in Tampa, Fla., however, said, "I don't think you'll see a continuing rate of decline."
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