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OxyContin spending rises 38 percent in PEIA year
HARLESTON AP The Ceram the state insurance program PEIA spent 38 percent more on OxyContin in the first 11 months of 2000 2001 than the entire 1999 2000 year. Costs rose from 589 000 to 812 000 with the drug in top five lists for Medicaid and Workers Compensation while PEIA itself does not rank it in top 25. State officials defend the drug as beneficial when prescribed properly and say new limits aim to curb abuse. Merck Medco will probe doctors with patients seeing multiple physicians for controlled substances in three months.
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Harleston
Public Employees Insurance Agency
Workers’ Compensation Division
Senate Human Resources
Roman Prezioso
Dmarion
PEIA
OxyContin
Tom Susman
Felice Joseph
Susman
Agen
Merck- Medco