Modern Healthcare (8/11, Kacik, Subscription Publication) reported on how opioid treatment varies across the country. The nonprofit Fair Health “pored through 26 billion privately billed healthcare claims and found tremendous variation in opioid treatment cost and utilization by state and region.” Dr. Martin Makary with the group said, “We need to recognize the downstream impacts of undertreating and improperly treating opioid abuse and restore the reimbursement of outpatient medication treatment and MAT.”
Related Links:
— “Variety of factors drive wide variation in opioid treatment across the U.S., “Alex Kacik, Modern Healthcare, August 11, 2018.