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Payer
A Lack of Parity In Parity? A National Recovery Month Spotlight
Coverage for substance use disorder varies but the view from 2024 looks so much brighter.
Technology
The Clock is Ticking on Telemedicine Prescriptions
Advocates are once again lobbying the White House and Congress to extend a waiver on using telemedicine to prescribe controlled...
Innovation
Targeting Telehealth as a Chronic Care Management Tool
PCORI has issued grants totaling more than $27 million to three research projects comparing virtual care to in-person care.
Payer
What Medicaid MCO Alliance Health's Partnership with Cityblock Means For Innovation
The risk-based contract marks meaningful expansion for both companies in a state that is growing its Medicaid rolls to include...
Pharma
Opioid Maker Endo Health Solutions to Pay $1.1B, Forfeit $450M
It's the second-largest criminal financial penalty levied against a drug maker.
Payer
Payers, SUD, and VBC: 'There's a Lot of Meat on This Bone'
MCO collaboration and value creation were a focus of the second annual Inspire Recovery conference.
Payer
7 Fast Facts on the New SUD Privacy Regulations
Meet the organizations that helped bring substance use disorder privacy and consent into the 21st century.
CMO
How WellSpan Cleared Out Its ERs By Increasing Behavioral Health Services
Most behavioral health patients do not need to receive care in hospital emergency departments, the chief physician executive of WellSpan...
Technology
HHS Expands Telemedicine Use in Opioid Abuse Treatment Programs
The new rule, announced today, enables healthcare providers to use audio-visual telemedicine platforms to evaluate new patients for methadone treatment...
Pharma
Records Show Publix Opioid Sales Grew Even as Addiction Crisis Prompted Other Chains' Pullback
While national pharmacy chains like CVS and Walgreens were dispensing fewer of the highly addictive drugs, Publix's sales were soaring.
Pharma
'They See a Cash Cow': Corporations Could Consume $50B of Opioid Settlements
But as the dollars land in government coffers a swarm of private, public, nonprofit, and for-profit entities are eyeing the...
Pharma
Millions in Opioid Settlement Funds Sit Untouched as Overdose Deaths Rise
The money is part of the approximately $50 billion that states and local governments will receive nationwide in opioid settlement...