DC Week: Groups Support Medicaid Pay Parity

Published December 11, 2012

DC Week: Groups Support Medicaid Pay Parity

Filed under: addiction help with suboxone

HHS also posted a rule Thursday allowing opioid treatment programs more flexibility in dispensing buprenorphine (Suboxone), a drug used to treat opioid addiction. The rule lifts the requirement that patients be in treatment for a year before they're …
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Opioid Overdose Focus of AMA/CDC Education Effort

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The Department of Health and Human Services announced Thursday that patients in U.S. addiction treatment programs will no longer have to wait a year to be eligible for therapy with buprenorphine (Suboxone). And next Wednesday, the American Medical …
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Community Health Sector Investments

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Addiction clinics to provide methadone and Suboxone opioid substitution treatment programs. The programs will include access to health professionals and services such as counseling and case management. Addiction treatment and counseling targeted at …
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