Briefly, what does the body of Scientific Evidence show regarding effect i haveness of met doen and buprenorphine in treatment of opioid abuse disorders . The research has shown, has shown it not just for methadone and buprenorphine, and naloxone, as part of a comprehensive program for treatment of opioid addiction are quite effective and significantly improve outcomes of individuals being able to stay on one hand ab stinent from the drug or to decrease likelihood of relapsing, also protects them against adverse outcome such as overdose. So in light of those studies you also said in your testimony that existing evidence based prevention and treatment strategies are highly underutilized across the United States, and last week we had an expert tell the panel that very few patients with opioid addiction today receive treatments that have been proven most effective. He was talking about the rapid detox, followed by abstinence based treatment. I wonder if you can help understand this. Why d
Treatment of opioid abuse disorders . The research has shown, has shown it not just for methadone and buprenorphine, and naloxone, as part of a comprehensive program for treatment of opioid addiction are quite effective and significantly improve outcomes of individuals being able to stay on one hand ab stinent from the drug or to decrease likelihood of relapsing, also protects them against adverse outcome such as overdose. So in light of those studies you also said in your testimony that existing evidence based prevention and treatment strategies are highly underutilized across the United States, and last week we had an expert tell the panel that very few patients with opioid addiction today receive treatments that have been proven most effective. He was talking about the rapid detox, followed by abstinence based treatment. I wonder if you can help understand this. Why do we have a situation where people are not getting evidence based treatment . It is a complex problem. There are many
Any real meaning in the real world . I mean, isnt the reality that when we say we are reimbursing more than costs, we only reimburse not all costs are reimbursable. We create this impression that a hospital is getting more than what it costs them to operate. Is there analysis . Can you quantify really what is going on in a hospital when we tell them or when we tell the public that your hospital is getting 101 of costs when its really reimbursable costs . Yeah, that is a as you know, thats a very complicated question. You know, it goes back to the historical costs of the hospital and if they converted to critical access, what those historical costs feed into, what they would be paid under the ch reimbursement status. So it does vary from state to state. But i would be happy to get back with you and also with your staff. We can connect you with some of the folks at the university of North Carolina as well some of our experts to better understand it. In todays setting i would welcome that
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Gentleman from West Virginia. Mr. Mckinley, for five minutes. Thank you very much, mr. Chairman, and thank you for the hearings on this topic. As an engineer, i need to see things in perspective. So been following this the last four years in congress and on this committee, trying to look at this issue. I think one of the last meetings we just had, i tried to put it in perspective by saying you said there were 44,000 Overdose Deaths. I want people to understand, thats more than died in vietnam in combat. I dont know that the American Public understands that, and every day on the news, nbc or whatever, they had body counts and had that and people were outraged over that. I am not getting the sense of outrage over every year we are lose as many people to Drug Overdose as we did a ten year war in vietnam. I am concerned when i had affirmed in West Virginia one in five babies born in West Virginia and may be 1 in 4 in other states, but 1 in 5 have been affected with drugs. I keep things in