Improving Medicaid Response to Opioid Overdose Victims and Enhancing Addiction Care.
This law aims to enhance safety and access to treatment for Medicaid beneficiaries who have survived an opioid overdose. It mandates states to identify these individuals and connect them with addiction treatment and recovery support services, while also requiring better communication of patient addiction history to prescribing providers. These changes seek to reduce fatal overdoses by promoting safer prescribing practices and faster patient enrollment in therapy.
Key points
Medicaid recipients who survive an opioid overdose will be actively connected to necessary treatment and recovery support services.
Prescribing doctors will receive notifications and educational materials if their patient dies from an overdose, promoting safer prescribing practices.
New protocols ensure providers treating patients have notice of the individual's history of opioid use disorder or overdose, improving treatment safety.
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