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Feb. 22, 2018: State Advocacy Update

Aetna's prior authorization program under scrutiny and MAT helps reduce post-incarceration fatal opioid-related overdoses in the latest AMA state advocacy news.

Advocacy Update
Patient in discomfort with physician looking on.
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Training tomorrow’s physicians to help reverse the opioid epidemic

Jason Jerry, MD, uses medication-assisted treatment for patients with opioid-use disorders and teaches residents how they can help reduce harm from the opioid epidemic.

Improve GME
Diagram of simplifying path to prior authorization
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AGs called on to help stop prior authorization for MAT

National Association of Attorneys General urged to follow New York Attorney General’s lead and stop prior authorization on medication-assisted treatment (MAT) across the nation.

Sustainability
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Medication-assisted treatment training to fight substance abuse

Physicians seeking to prescribe buprenorphine to fight opioid addiction must have 8 hours of certified training and obtain a waiver. Webinars offer medication-assisted treatment training.

Behavioral Health
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Addiction treatment to get a boost under new federal bill

In an effort to help get one of the nation’s most pressing epidemics under control, a new bill was introduced to the U.S. Senate with the goal of changing federal restrictions that can get in the way of providing life-saving medication assisted therapies for patients who suffer from opioid addiction.

Behavioral Health