Friday, September 23, 2022 | The Latest Research, Commentary, And News From Health Affairs
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Buprenorphine Treatment
In efforts to mitigate the
opioid epidemic, policy makers are enabling increased access to buprenorphine treatment.
In 2016 and 2018, federal legislation addressing continuing shortages of buprenorphine prescribers was passed, allowing advanced practice nurses (APNs) and physician assistants (PAs) to obtain an “X waiver,” a requirement to prescribe buprenorphine in an office-based setting.
The authors find that APNs accounted for the largest contribution to treatment capacity growth during the pandemic.
Furthermore, the extension of waivers to APNs and PAs particularly improved buprenorphine treatment access in rural communities. These findings signal that enabling these providers to prescribe buprenorphine could play a critical role in expanding access to opioid-related care.
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research we've published on the topic.
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Today in Health Affairs Forefront, Thoai Ngo writes about the Biden administration’s efforts to protect medication abortion and how a misoprostol-only regimen could improve access to care, especially for pregnant people forced to cross state borders to
receive treatment.
Richard Hughes and coauthors write about the current Affordable Care Act (ACA) challenge in the Braidwood v. Becerra(formerly Kelly v. Becerra) case which relates to the preventive services coverage requirement, Section 2713 of the Public Health Service Act.
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