A guide to strategies for paying for medication assisted treatment (MAT) for patients with opioid use disorder in community health centers. Part of the “how to pay for it” series from the California Health Care Foundation as part of the California Bridge program, this report describes strategies for how community health centers can receive reimbursement for Continue reading
Resource Tag: Primary Care
Buprenorphine – Everything You Need to Know
This clinician’s guide from the California Health Care Foundation aims to provide primary care providers with “everything they need to know” about buprenorphine. It includes background information on buprenorphine’s effectiveness as a treatment for opioid use disorder and the Drug Addiction Treatment Act Continue reading
Innovations in Addictions Treatment – Addiction Treatment Providers Working with Integrated Primary Care Services
A guide to integrating primary care services into substance use disorder treatment programs from the Center for Integrated Health Solutions (SAMHSA/HRSA). The guide describes common integration models and provides examples of how clinics around the country have developed integrated care programs with a discussion of successes, Continue reading
Opioid Taper Decision Tool
A toolkit prepared by the Veterans Health Administration to help primary care providers manage opioid tapering in their practices. It includes steps to take before beginning a taper including assessing the patient for conditions that might complicate the tapering process and communicating directly with the patient about opioid safety and tapering options. Continue reading
Recovery Within Reach – Medication Assisted Treatment of Opioid Addiction Comes to Primary Care
This 2016 report from the California Health Care Foundation reviews evidence related to buprenorphine treatment for opioid use disorder and provides guidance for clinicians interested in creating a medication assisted treatment (MAT) program in a primary care setting. Recommendations Continue reading
Primary Care Buprenorphine Programs – Ten Elements of Success
This 2 page guide from the California Health Care Foundation lists the “10 elements of success” in creating a buprenorphine treatment program in a primary care setting. It provides a summary of the findings from a longer report titled “Recovery Within Reach: Medication-Assisted Treatment of Continue reading
Six Building Blocks: A Team-Based Approach to Improving Opioid Management in Primary Care
This website presents the Six Building Blocks program for primary care teams who want to improve their practice’s management of patients on long term opioid therapy for chronic pain. It defines the Six Building Blocks and provides tools and resources for improving patient care as well as implementation guidance for the program. Continue reading
Alternatives to Opioid Pain Medications
This half hour video educates primary care providers about treating pain with an emphasis on assessing patients for their risks for opioid abuse and considering alternative non-opioid treatments for pain. Produced in 2015 by the National Safety Council, the video is a presentation by Dr. Don Teater, medical advisor at the Safety Council. Continue reading
Integrated Care for Kids (InCK) Model
This website describes the Integrated Care for Kids (InCK) Model Medicaid is piloting to improve behavioral health care for children and youth with the goals of improving child outcomes, reducing inpatient hospitalizations and out-of-home placements, and creating alternative funding streams for these services. Continue reading
Implementing an Integrated Medication-Assisted Treatment Program at Community Health Centers
This 2018 evaluation of a pilot program to develop integrated medication assisted treatment (MAT) programs at community health centers (CHCs) describes the lessons learned by 10 CHCs as they implemented new MAT programs at their clinics in California. Continue reading