CareConnect: Adapting a Virtual Urgent Care Model to Provide Buprenorphine Transitional Care

Half of patients in telemedicine program for opioidusedisorder current with medication a month later pennmedicine

Medications for opioid use disorder such as buprenorphine are the gold standard for treatment of OUD, but patients face many barriers accessing these medications. To address this gap, a team at Penn Medicine leveraged new regulatory flexibilities during the Covid-19 pandemic that allow for virtual prescribing of buprenorphine.

The program is enhanced by a substance use navigator team that assesses patients, supports patients and clinicians throughout a patient’s care journey, and links patients to longitudinal OUD care programs based in primary care or specialty behavioral health. In this article, the authors describe the development and implementation of this novel program to treat OUD embedded within an existing telehealth urgent care program.

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