Patients Who Are Privately Insured Receive Limited Follow-up Services After Opioid-Related Hospitalizations

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There has been a significant increase in hospitalizations for opioid misuse in recent years. Using 2010-2014 MarketScan commercial data, this report finds that 40 percent of patients do not receive any follow-up services within 30 days after an opioid-related hospitalization. Only 11 percent of patients received the recommended combination of both medication and a therapeutic service.

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21 Visit the original government dataset for complete information, documentation, and data access. https://www.samhsa.gov/data/report/patients-who-are-privately-insured-receive-limited-follow-services-after-opioid-related

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  • private-insurance
  • follow-up-care
  • opioid-related-hospitalizations
  • marketscan-data
  • samhsa

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