Medicaid is the largest payer of substance use disorder treatment in the US, 8 covering approximately 38 percent of nonelderly adults with OUD as of 2019. 9 The Substance Use Disorder Prevention that ...

Aurora-based health system University of Colorado Health has agreed to pay $23 million to resolve allegations it used automatic coding for emergency department visits to fraudulently bill a pair of ...

This study examines the impact of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on substance-associated emergency department (ED) visits among young adults, revealing reduced alcohol-associated visits but unchanged ...

Efforts to reduce emergency department visits associated with adverse drug events should focus on psychiatric medications, which are top offenders when it comes to root causes of ED visits, according ...

A recent retrospective study found that earlier outpatient palliative care referrals for patients with advanced cancer were associated with a small increase in overall emergency department (ED) visits ...

An end-of-life ED visit was inversely associated with time from palliative care referral to death per 1-month increase (OR, 0.84; 95% CI, 0.80 to 0.89; P .001). A substantial proportion of patients ...