State Opioid Limits and Volume of Opioid Prescriptions Received by Medicaid Patients.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Since early 2016, an increasing number of states passed legislations that limit the duration and/or dosage of initial opioid prescriptions or opioids for acute pain.

Objective

The objective of this study was to assess changes in the number of opioid prescriptions covered by Medicaid and received by Medicaid patients associated with state implementation of legislative limits on initial opioid prescriptions.

Research design

We explored the natural experiment resulting from the staggered implementation of state legislative limits. The analysis adopted a Difference-in-Differences framework and controlled for other major state policies bearing implications for prescription opioid use. The main analysis included 26 states that implemented limits from early 2016 t

SUBMITTER: Zhang H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7808343 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature