
Contributor: Opioid Tracker Released by FAIR Health
FAIR Health has launched a new Opioid Tracker, featuring heat maps representing opioid abuse and dependence claim lines in the United States.
Today FAIR Health launched the
Available on FAIR Health’s website
Among the key findings revealed by the Opioid Tracker:
- In 2022, H0020 (methadone administration and/or service) had the highest utilization nationally of all procedure codes for opioid abuse and dependence, representing 21.6% of claim lines for all such procedure codes (Figure 1).
- Ranking in first place by total spending nationally for opioid abuse and dependence, H0018 (behavioral health short-term residential treatment program, no room and board, per diem) accounted for 9.8% of aggregate allowed amounts attributable to procedure codes for opioid abuse and dependence in 2022.
- Nationally, the percentage of medical claim lines for opioid abuse and dependence from 2018 to 2022 showed an overall decline, from 0.254% in 2018 to 0.196% in 2022 (Figure 2). However, a number of states showed an increase in that percentage—including Arizona, Georgia, Indiana, and Rhode Island, among others.
- Nationally, in 2022, patients aged 31 to 40 were the age group with the highest percentage of opioid abuse and dependence claim lines, 31.1%.
- Nationally, in 2022, males accounted for 62.5% of claim lines with opioid abuse and dependence diagnoses, while females accounted for 37.5%.
The Opioid Tracker is the latest addition to FAIR Health’s series of trackers offering geographic windows into health care data. The series also includes the
The Opioid Tracker sheds light on multiple aspects of opioid abuse and dependence, including utilization, costs, age and gender. We hope that the Opioid Tracker will be useful to all health care stakeholders, such as policy makers, payors, providers, patients, and researchers, as they continue to track and seek to better understand and address this public health issue.
For the Opioid Tracker, click
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