{"id":13563,"date":"2019-07-11T10:42:05","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T14:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13563"},"modified":"2019-07-11T10:42:05","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T14:42:05","slug":"medicare-going-in-right-direction-on-opioid-epidemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13563","title":{"rendered":"Medicare Going In \u2018Right Direction\u2019 On Opioid Epidemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Martha Bebinger, WBUR for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>Prescriptions for two drugs used to treat opioid addiction increased significantly from 2016 to 2018 for people on Medicare, according to a federal\u00a0report\u00a0out Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>About 174,000 Medicare beneficiaries received such a medication \u2014 either buprenorphine or naltrexone \u2014 to help them with recovery in 2018, according to the Office of Inspector General in the Department of Health and Human Services.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, prescriptions for naloxone, the drug that can reverse an opioid overdose, spiked since 2016, rising 501% \u2015 and that is likely an underestimate because it doesn\u2019t include doses of the nasal spray Medicare members might have received through local programs, the OIG said.\u00a0 Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/medicare-going-in-right-direction-on-opioid-epidemic\/\">article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-899\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Martha Bebinger, WBUR for Kaiser Health News) Prescriptions for two drugs used to treat opioid addiction increased significantly from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-health-issues","category-medicare-general","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13564,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13563\/revisions\/13564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}