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A panel of experts recently appeared before a Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC) in early 2019 to discuss barriers to medication-assisted treatment (MAT). Despite some headway, patients on Medicaid continue to face a number of barriers to…
If you’re reading this post, you likely already know the seriousness of the opioid epidemic currently in the United States. The opioid epidemic is the largest the U.S. has faced in decades, arguably since the emergence of AIDS. Opioid use…
This blog post references the 2019 Draft Report. Read it in full here. The public will have the opportunity to make comments on the Draft Report on Pain Management Best Practices: Updates, Gaps, Inconsistencies, and Recommendations (Draft Report) before it…
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar announced this November in a speech to the National Association of Medicaid Directors that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services would allow states to waive the IMD exclusion, "giving states more flexibility…
An often dismissed option in the struggle to address opioid addiction is the use of medical marijuana. Though usage of the cannabis plant remains controversial in the United States, several studies indicate it may have value in addressing opioid addiction,…
AZZLY® partner DrFirst announced recently that their Electronic Prescribing of Controlled Substances (EPCS) system EPCS Gold now includes integrated availability of state PDMP (Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs) systems. When E-Prescribing, clinicians can save time by viewing patients' PDMP drug history…
As the opioid epidemic in the United States continues to affect millions, medication-assisted treatment, or MAT, has risen as one of the leading options in treating substance use disorders. The method can be used to treat a number of substance…
On November 29th, a webinar series organized by the National Association of Addiction Treatment Providers (NAATP) will cover the Google Ads landscape before and after Google began requiring treatment centers to be certified by LegitScript in April. As NAATP put…
This September, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) released an online series titled "Science to Medicine" as an educational piece on medication-assisted treatment. The series, which is part of NIDA's physicians' outreach initiative, NIDAMED, allows clinicians and practices to…
Update: On Wednesday, October 24, 2018, President Trump officially signed the Opioid Crisis Response Act into law. Monday evening, September 17, the United States Senate passed the Opioid Crisis Response Act of 2018, a legislative package of more than 70 bills…
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