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Do Policies to Increase Access to Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder Work? / Eric Barrette, Leemore Dafny, Karen Shen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barrette, Eric.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w29001.
- NBER working paper series no. w29001
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2021.
- Summary:
- Even among commercially-insured individuals, opioid use disorder (OUD) is undertreated in the U.S.: nearly half receive no treatment within 6 months of a new diagnosis. Using a difference-in-differences specification exploiting the extension of insurance parity requirements for substance disorder treatment to small group enrollees in 2014, we find that parity increases utilization of residential treatment but decreases utilization of agonist medications, the standard of care. We find direct interventions to increase access to medication may be more promising: increases in the county-level share of physicians able to prescribe agonists are associated with substitution toward medication-assisted treatment.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- July 2021.
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