{"id":6109,"date":"2017-03-12T05:00:20","date_gmt":"2017-03-12T09:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=6109"},"modified":"2017-03-10T09:32:35","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T14:32:35","slug":"hmo-doctors-take-pains-to-slash-opioid-prescriptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=6109","title":{"rendered":"HMO Doctors Take Pains To Slash Opioid Prescriptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Sam Quinones for California Healthline produced by Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>On a summer afternoon in 2009, eight Kaiser Permanente doctors met in Pasadena to review\u00a0the HMO\u2019s most prescribed drugs in Southern California. Sun blasted through the windows and the room had no air conditioning, but what unsettled the doctors most were the slides a pharmacist was presenting. <a href=\"http:\/\/californiahealthline.org\/news\/hmo-doctors-take-pains-to-slash-opioid-prescriptions\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=44313264&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9suk8Iog4N77IJZpsG9frpcNmboD6HrW2RHl0lvXpv062uv9e4s_WSDfxwH8uTAMq8JgzvomoAlOvZI7brjT0LIgpRRg&amp;_hsmi=44313264\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This story was produced by <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/\">Kaiser Health News<\/a>, which publishes California Healthline, a service of the California Health Care Foundation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.6; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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