A report on prescription drug costs for workers' compensation says inflation has decreased, but rates paid by individual businesses have varied widely with large increases and decreases.

The findings were made by Madison, Conn.-based Health Strategy Associates, LLC in their “Fifth Annual Survey of Prescription Drug Management in Workers' Compensation.”

According to HSA pharmacy, cost inflation has decreased to 4.9 percent from 6.5 percent last year and from 17.8 percent in 2003. But the firm said individual payers' inflation rates varied dramatically from a decrease of 12.8 percent to an increase of 21.8 percent.

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