Compound medications cost Bergen County $3.8 million in 2015.
HACKENSACK -- Bergen County officials have told employees the county will stop paying for certain expensive compound medications, The Record reported.
The county needed to reduce health care costs to avoid layoffs, County Administrator Dominic Novelli said.
Compound medications cost the county $3.8 million in 2015 for about 130 employees who used the medicine, Novelli said. United Service Workers Union, which covers white-collar county workers, plans to to ask New Jersey Public Employment Relations Commission to stay the county's decision until it's determined whether the move was a violation of collective bargaining rights.
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