Outcomes After a Statewide Policy to Improve Evidence-Based Treatment of Back Pain Among Medicaid Enrollees in Oregon.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A novel Oregon Medicaid policy guiding back pain management combined opioid restrictions with emphasis on non-opioid and non-pharmacologic therapies.

Objective

To examine the effect of the policy on prescribing, health outcomes, and health service utilization.

Design

Using Medicaid enrollment, medical and prescription claims, prescription drug monitoring program, and vital statistics files, we analyzed the policy's association with selected outcomes using interrupted time series models.

Subjects

Adult Medicaid patients with back pain enrolled between 2014 and 2018.

Intervention

The Oregon Medicaid back pain policy.

Main measures

Opioid and non-opioid medication prescribing, procedural care, substance use and mental health conditions, an

SUBMITTER: Choo EK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11802945 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature