The treatment can start faster because patients will no longer need to demonstrate a one-year history of opioid addiction.
New federal rules allow stable patients to take home a month's worth of methadone if states allow it.The first big update to U.S. methadone regulations in 20 years is poised to expand access to the life-saving drug starting next month, but experts say theFor decades, strict rules required most methadone patients to line up at special clinics every morning to sip their daily dose of the liquid medicine while being watched.
“Where you live matters,” said University of Arizona researcher Beth Meyerson, who studies methadone policy. Under the new rules, which Arizona plans to embrace, clinics will have broad discretion about which people qualify for take-home doses. Ideally, such decisions will be made jointly between doctors and patients. But money will play a role too, experts said.
New York's Medicaid program uses a bundled payment model so there's no financial incentive for in-person dosing.
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