{"id":14906,"date":"2020-01-06T11:13:27","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T16:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14906"},"modified":"2020-01-06T11:13:27","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T16:13:27","slug":"medicare-beneficiaries-living-with-opioid-use-disorder-now-have-treatment-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14906","title":{"rendered":"Medicare beneficiaries living with opioid use disorder now have treatment option"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Medicare-age population has among the highest and fastest growing rates of diagnosed opioid use disorder (OUD). Good news is for the 300,000\u00a0 beneficiaries with traditional Medicare living with OUD can finally access opioid treatment programs as of January 1, 2020.\u00a0 Read article <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/original-medicare-patients-living-opioid-140000681.html\">here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/iStock_000025513411Small-700x559-medicare.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9838\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/iStock_000025513411Small-700x559-medicare-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/iStock_000025513411Small-700x559-medicare-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/iStock_000025513411Small-700x559-medicare.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> 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>Medicare-age population has among the highest and fastest growing rates of diagnosed opioid use disorder (OUD). Good news is for<\/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-14906","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\/14906","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=14906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14907,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14906\/revisions\/14907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}