DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2011 Issue 6 (June)

Benchmark of the Week: High-growth, high-denial drug codes, 2008-2009

The fastest-growing drug codes from 2008 to 2009 encompass a wide variety of clinical conditions, quite different from the type of growth seen from 2007 to 2008. While in both cases unspecified drugs outpace all others in terms of percentage increase in utilization, the newer data shows significant growth in drugs for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and high blood pressure.

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