Healio (4/16, Weller) reported, “Even with health insurance, people with opioid use disorder [OUD] receive lower quality preventive and chronic care as well as lower quality care coordination,” investigators concluded after conducting “a cross-sectional study using deidentified data from 125,973 people (55.1% women; 62.1% white; mean age, 59 years).” The study “evaluated quality of care by matching the outpatient data of 79,372 adults with OUD who had commercial or Medicare Advantage insurance with 46,601 comparators across preventive care, chronic illness care and care coordination.” The findings were published online April 8 in JAMA Network Open.
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