Change In Compound Drug Plan Saves Taxpayers Millions

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) – State Comptroller Kevin Lembo says restrictions he’s imposed on the rapidly rising use of compound drug prescriptions in the state health plan have cut state spending by about $2 million a month.
Lembo said Monday the use of compound drugs has been questionable and some were expensive and untested.
The cost in claims to the state health plan has skyrocketed to $24 million this year on an annualized basis, from $800,000 in 2012.
He says compound drug use was lim