MedPage Today (3/4, Firth) reports a study found that “disenrollment from health plans was associated with an increased risk of mortality among patients who initiated medications for opioid use disorder (OUD).” Researchers observed that “in adjusted analyses of more than 20,000 patients, ever experiencing disenrollment was associated with increased risks of all-cause mortality (HR 1.51) and overdose mortality (HR 1.56).” Furthermore, “the all-cause mortality rates were 17.6 versus 14.7 per 1,000 person-years for patients with and without health plan disenrollment, respectively, while rates of overdose mortality were 8.9 versus 5.4 per 1,000 person-years.” The study was published in JAMA Psychiatry.
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