mHealth Intelligence October 19, 2023
Medicaid patients who started opioid use disorder treatment via telehealth have better odds of continuing treatment than their peers who did not use telehealth.
Using telehealth to begin opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment is linked to high retention in treatment among Medicaid beneficiaries, according to a new study.
Published in JAMA Network Open, the study is a part of the HEALing Communities Study, an addiction prevention and treatment implementation study supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and conducted in partnership with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).
The study examines the link between the modality used to provide buprenorphine treatment for OUD during the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) and treatment retention. It also...
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