Joe Paduda has posted this week’s Health Wonk Review at Managed Care Matters. In keeping with the overall mission of HWR, he says that there’s “lots of health policy stuff, all right here!”
While at Joe’s blog, also check out his post on drug formularies . He makes the case that despite progress that payers and PBMs have made in curbing runaway opioid costs, new drug-related issues keep emerging (eg compounding) and tighter controls are needed.