Medicaid Managed Care: Access To Primary Care Providers Who Prescribe Buprenorphine.

ABSTRACT: Medicaid managed care insurers play a crucial role in facilitating access to buprenorphine to treat opioid use disorder. Using a novel set of provider directory and prescription claims data, we examined variation in access to in-network buprenorphine-prescribing primary care providers among Medicaid managed care enrollees. Approximately 32.2 percent of enrollees had fewer than one in-network buprenorphine prescriber per 100,000 county residents. On average, there were a greater number of in-network buprenorphine-prescribing primary care providers in states with higher compared with lower overdose death rates. However, most enrollees lived in areas with a shortage of these providers. We found that a 25 percent higher network participation rate by prescribers compared with nonprescribers cou

SUBMITTER: Meiselbach MK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9245197 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature