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Aims
To estimate the association between punitive policies for women with substance use during pregnancy and odds of neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) diagnosis among Medicaid‐insured infants, and to estimate this association controlling for the presence of four other policies related to substance use in pregnancy.
Design, Setting and Participants
Analysis of live births in Medicaid claims data...
Background and Aims
The time lag encountered when accessing health‐care data is one major barrier to implementing opioid overdose prediction measures in practice. Little is known regarding how one's opioid overdose risk changes over time. We aimed to identify longitudinal patterns of individual predicted overdose risks among Medicaid beneficiaries after initiation of opioid prescriptions.
Design,...
Background and Aims
Medicaid is a public health insurance program in the United States that serves low‐income individuals. Medicaid beneficiaries have elevated risk of opioid use disorder (OUD), yet face barriers to receiving medications for OUD (MOUD). To inform efforts to increase MOUD receipt among Medicaid beneficiaries, this study: (1) estimated Medicaid participation prevalence among clinicians...
Background and aims
Medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) reduces harms associated with opioid use disorder (OUD), including risk of overdose. Understanding how variation in MOUD duration influences overdose risk is important as health‐care payers increasingly remove barriers to treatment continuation (e.g. prior authorization). This study measured the association between MOUD continuation, relative...
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