Payers and providers play an important role in addressing the opioid crisis in our communities. This page highlights the most recently added resources specifically targeting healthcare providers, healthcare system employees, and individuals who manage private and public insurance plans. These resources, identified with blue tiles, include patient and provider education materials, clinical practice guidelines and practice protocols, and research and reports about insurance coverage and benefit design around addiction treatment and pain management.
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A 2014 report on the findings from a learning collaborative on how to implement medication assisted treatment in safety net settings including primary care, substance use treatment, and community mental health programs. Leaders from California, Maryland, and Ohio participated in the learning collaborative and this report shares their lessons learned.
This 2018 report from Providers Clinical Support System and the National Association of Community Health Centers provides detailed guidance to providers and clinic administrative staff on how to establish a medical assisted treatment program in your clinic.
This 2019 review from Oregon’s Drug Use Research & Management Program examined whether removing Medicaid prior authorization requirements for medication assisted treatment for individuals with opioid use
This 2010 report describes the experiences of grantees who participated in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s State/Provider Partnerships for Quality Addiction Care program between 2005 and 2010. It describes lessons learned by grantees as they established medication assisted treatment programs in their organizations.
This guide provides information providers need to implement a medication assisted treatment (MAT) program for patients with opioid use disorder in their community.
A companion document to New Hampshire’s guidance on creating community-based medication assisted treatment (MAT) services for opioid use disorder, this quality planning tool guides staff through the steps necessary to develop and implement an MAT program.
This one page information piece challenging the myths around medication assisted treatment for opioid use disorder was created by the National Council on Behavioral Health and is directed at physicians and other health care providers.
This four page document presents the highlights from the 2019 National Academies report on medication assisted treatment for opioid use disorder. Funding Source: National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health; Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
This one page document summarizes the conclusions of the 2019 National Academies report on medications for opioid use disorder.
This 2014 guideline from the Michigan Department of Community Health provides an overview of addiction and opioid use disorder with information specifically about medication assisted treatment.