A 12-page Executive Summary offering summary highlights for 22 Accountable Care Organizations and ACO solutions companies regarding their successes during the most recent MSSP performance year.
5 Take-Aways from the AMA's Opioid Task Force 2019 Progress Report
- The number of opioid prescriptions in the U.S. fell 33% between 2013 and 2018
- by more than 80 million prescriptions.
- Between 2017 and 2018
- the number of opioid prescriptions in the U.S. fell 12.4%
- by 20 million prescriptions.
- In 2018
- physicians made over 460 million queries on state-based prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs)
- a 56% increase from 2017 and a 651% increase from 2014.
- In 2018
- there were more than 598
- 000 prescriptions for the opioid overdose antidote naloxone
- a 107% increase from 2017 and a 338% increase from 2016.
- Over 66
- 000 physicians and other health care providers currently have federal waivers to prescribe buprenorphine for in-office treatment of opioid use disorder.
Source: The American Medical Association, June 6, 2019 - https://www.end-opioid-epidemic.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/AMA-Opioid-Task-…