People all over the world have been affected by the opioid health crisis. From 1999-2018, almost 450,000 people died from an overdose involving prescription opiates, heroin, fentanyl, or other opioids. About 47,000 people die from opioid overdoses each year in…
The American Medical Association (AMA) has thrown down the gauntlet. Dr. Patrice Harris, the President of the AMA, released a statement calling for “improved EHR usability.” Dr. Harris’s statement began, “A new study issued today found electronic medical records (EHRs)…
“At the end of the day we provided great care, we got people in the door...but we weren’t getting paid.” In episode one, Bill Chrisovergis of Miami Valley Recovery in Dayton, Ohio, discussed how he began working in addiction treatment…
In October, the AZZLY® Lake Nona staff attended the Certified Medication Assisted Treatment Advocate (CMA) Training Course. The course ran eight hours and was a pre-conference event as part of the 2019 American Association for the Treatment of Opioid Dependence…
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…
