Prescription Drug Spending For State Employees Runs Wild-That $24 million problem was compounded drugs — mixtures of medicines, typically produced by big, out-of-state compounding pharmacies, often in the form of topical creams for pain. Costs to Connecticut taxpayers for those medicines had exploded from $800,000 in 2012 to an estimated $24 million this year, with charges as much as $18,000 per patient for a 30-day supply.

Prescription Drug Spending For State Employees Runs Wild ...

Hartford Courant-2 hours ago

That $24 million problem was compounded drugs — mixtures of medicines, typically produced by big, out-of-state compounding