Agency Finds That Only 18% of Medicare Beneficiaries With Opioid Use Disorder Received Medication Treatment

Agency Finds That Only 18% of Medicare Beneficiaries With Opioid Use Disorder Received Medication Treatment

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released a report on the percentage of Medicare enrollees who receive medication to treat their opioid use disorder (OUD).OIG highlights that opioid-related overdose deaths remain at a near all-time high with 83,827 deaths in 2022. Most of the deaths involved synthetic opioids. OIG developed this report to… (McClurg, December 19, 2023) #Opioids