
The Kentuckiana Health Collaborative is participating in a multi-year partnership with the Kentucky Opioid Response Effort (KORE) to leverage the healthcare purchaser community to address the epidemic of opioid misuse and opioid use disorder by implementing best practice benefit design and workplace policy to support prevention, treatment and recovery.
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Using the Milliman MedInsight Health Waste Calculator™, the Washington Health Alliance’s recent analysis of waste found that from 2014-2017 of the more than one million people prescribed opiates for back pain in the first four weeks, almost 470,000 received low-value services, at an estimated cost of nearly $90 million. The Alliance and the Bree Collaborate worked together to produce public education campaigns for health systems, plans, providers, and patients to help reduce opiate prescribing.
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Demonstrating its continuing commitment to responsible corporate citizenship, the Business Health Care Group (BHCG) has developed a toolkit of opioid communication materials for use by any employer nationwide, free of charge. The materials focus on workplace and safety issues, education, prevention, employee benefits, and assistance related to opioid dependence and misuse. Offered in a variety of media options, the materials include posters, business cards, window clings, table tents, video monitor content, and presentations.
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