HARTFORD, Conn., Aug. 24 (UPI) -- Insurance giant Aetna has launched a new integrated workers' compensation pharmacy network, the company announced Thursday.
Aetna Workers' Comp Access has introduced a new nationwide workers' compensation pharmacy network that offers new capabilities to help improve patient safety and identify fraud as well as transparent pricing.
The network gives Aetna's employer-customers the ability to link its workers' comp pharmacy data with its medical pharmacy data to help improve patient safety as well as to help prevent abuse and unnecessary costs associated with fraud.
If workers receive prescriptions from more than one physician, the plan member and the physician will be automatically notified of potential drug interactions.
Also, the network can be used to flag multiple prescriptions from different physicians for potentially addictive drugs like the painkiller cxycontin, to indentify problems with drug abuse and/or fraud.
Large retailer Costco is one of the early joiners of the program.
