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BCBSMA: Massachusetts leads nation in reducing opioid prescriptions

Source Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (BCBSMA)
Published Date 7/12/2018
Improvement follows launch of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts' Prescription Pain Medication Safety Program

A new study from the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association found that the number of prescriptions for opioid-based medications among its commercially insured members in Massachusetts plummeted 51 percent between 2013 and 2017 -- the biggest drop in the nation. The results come in the wake of a groundbreaking prescription safety program launched by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts in 2012, before the opioid epidemic was widely recognized as a crisis. ...
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