Financial incentives for hospitals boost rapid changes to opioid use disorder treatment

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) In a new study, researchers at the Penn Medicine evaluated the efficacy of the Opioid Hospital Quality Improvement Program, pioneered by Pennsylvania in 2019, revealing that financial incentives for hospitals are effective in producing rapid treatment innovations for opioid use disorder, including increasing the rate of follow-up treatment for Medicaid patients within seven days of an ED encounter.