Forefront: Expanding Access To Methadone Treatment
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Friday, May 27, 2022 | The Latest Research, Commentary, And News From
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Insurance Expansion In South Korea
In their May 2022 paper, Hwa-Young Lee and coauthors examine a 2013
national health insurance expansion
program in South Korea.
The authors evaluate the impact of this benefit expansion policy for
four categories of major disease (cancer, cardiac disease,
cerebrovascular disease, and rare diseases) on catastrophic health
expenditures, impoverishment, and unmet need.
Their findings indicate that the insurance expansion has had modest and
mixed effects on financial protection of beneficiaries.
The policy protects households from catastrophic health expenditure;
however, the authors find no positive policy effect on preventing
beneficiary households from being impoverished or decreasing unmet need
among beneficiaries.
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Elsewhere At Health Affairs
Today in Health Affairs Forefront, two articles cover the topic of
substance abuse and methadone treatment delivery.
Zoe M. Adams and coauthors write about the current model of methadone
delivery to treat opioid use disorder
(OUD). Many patients have described methadone treatment as prohibitive
and inflexible.
The authors call for expanding methadone treatment to office-based
settings as a critical step towards overdose prevention and improving
the lives of patients with OUD.
Richard Bonnie and coauthors also write about expanding access to
methadone treatment
,
citing challenges that make it difficult for patients to receive care.
Existing requirements in methadone treatment force many patients to
travel to an opioid treatment program daily to receive their medicine.
This is often difficult, especially in rural areas, effectively
precluding access to treatment.
The authors advocate for new regulations to improve patient access to
methadone, such as extending "take home" options for medicine and
incentivizing states to expand access to methadone.
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Health Policy And Gun Violence
Health Affairs's Jessica Bylander and Vabren Watts discuss this week's
school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, and the recent history of gun policy
in the United States.
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Daily Digest
Changes In Catastrophic Health Expenditures For Major Diseases After A
2013 Health Insurance Expansion In South Korea
Hwa-Young Lee et al.
To Save Lives From Opioid Overdose Deaths, Bring Methadone Into
Mainstream Medicine
Zoe M. Adams et al.
An Expedited Regulatory Strategy For Expanding Access To Methadone
Treatment For Opioid Use Disorder
Richard J. Bonnie et al.
Podcast: Health Policy And Gun Violence
Jessica Bylander and Vabren Watts
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