Nearly 8% of Annual Hospital Spend Treats Opioid Use Disorder
The costs related to treating opioid use disorder are “striking,” an expert said.
"The opioid epidemic has not only taken the lives of?nearly 1 million people?in the last 24 years, but it has also cost the US healthcare system tens of billions of dollars annually.
The healthcare system spends an estimated $95.4 billion, or 7.9% of all hospital expenditures, related to opioid use disorder (OUD) each year, according to a?January analysis?from health services firm Premier."
"Most of the OUD patients in the analysis were enrolled in Medicaid or were uninsured, so the financial burden of treatment for these patients largely fell on health systems. Premier analysts estimated that if the payer mix remained constant across all hospital emergency room and inpatient visits in the nation, $67 billion of the total US annual cost to treat OUD patients in the hospital would fall to Medicare and Medicaid."
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