A pharmacy cannot go unreimbursed for medicine simply because an employer paying the workers’ compensation benefits decides the medicine is unnecessary, the Commonwealth Court has ruled.
In a precedential opinion Aug. 7, a three-judge panel of the Commonwealth Court vacated an order from the Bureau of Workers’ Compensation on a fee review for Mark Kraayenbrink’s topical back pain medication. His employer, Cabinet Transport Inc., had refused to pay more than $6,600 for the medicine, owed to Armour Pharmacy, and had executed a new compromise and release agreement for that purpose.
