opioids
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Hospitals
Massachusetts system pays DOJ $1.9M after employee theft reveals drug inventory inaccuracies
By Dave Muoio – Dec 8, 2022 A Massachusetts health system has agreed to a nearly $2 million settlement with the…
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Regulatory
16 doctors, clinic owners sentenced in $250M opioid fraud scheme
By Dave Muoio / Mar 11, 2022 Sixteen people, including 12 doctors, will face prison time and hefty fines for their roles…
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Spine
New study finds procedures treating spinal fractures associated with reduction in opioid use and decreased payer costs
Study shows 57.1% of patients discontinued or reduced oral opioid prescription refills post-procedure and exhibited a decrease in payer costs¹…
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Extremities
Multi-center Study Demonstrates Significant Reductions in Postoperative Pain and Opioid Use Following Peripheral Nerve Stimulation Treatment
– Findings Published as Congress Demands Review of Medicare Coverage for Non-opioid Treatments – Cleveland, Ohio- April 26, 2021- Results…
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Recon
TSA: Patient Satisfaction Unchanged by Reduction of Opioids
Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. Will a decrease in opioids leave patients “dissatisfied?” Consider a new retrospective review from the NYU…
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Recon
Depressed Patients: 225% More Likely to Receive Opioids for Knee OA!
Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. There is a lot to unpack in a recent massive study of patients with knee osteoarthritis…
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Financial
Pain clinic CEO sentenced to 15 years in prison for role in $150M fraud, opioid distribution scheme
by Paige Minemyer | Mar 5, 2021 The CEO of a Michigan- and Ohio-based group of pain clinics and other providers was sentenced to 15…
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Regulatory
1,000 Orthopedic Procedures, 61% of Opioids Unused…But There is an Upside
Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. New work from the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania has determined that…
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Recon
More Initial Opioid Prescriptions Post-TJA Can Spell
Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. Do those first postoperative opioid prescriptions after total joint arthroplasty (TJA) spell trouble for the long…
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Hospitals
Opioid Prescribing: Government Rules PLUS Institutional Initiatives=Better Results
Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. When researchers from NYU Langone Health reviewed data on 20,483 patients who underwent orthopedic procedures, they…
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Recon
Haphazard Prescribing for Opioid-Naïve Patients After Knee Arthroscopy?
by Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. As patients prescribed opioids typically have remaining pills, more precise prescribing is in order, say…
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Regulatory
Study Finds Patients Who Undergo Spine Surgery Prescribed Most Narcotics Three Months Following Surgery
ROSEMONT, Ill., July 8, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — As Americans have the highest opioid use rates, leading to abuse,i the orthopaedic community has committed itself…
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Hospitals
Keep Older Hip Patients Off Opioids!
by Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed. Elderly patients with hip fractures don’t need anything else to worry about, much less the…
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Regulatory
4 Detroit-area physicians found guilty of forcing patients to undergo back injections in exchange for opioids
by Joanne Finnegan | Feb 5, 2020 Four Detroit-area physicians were found guilty by a federal jury Tuesday of healthcare fraud after they…
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OSN Premium
Bad to the Cervical Bone: ACDF, Depression and Anxiety
by Elizabeth Hofheinz, M.P.H., M.Ed., November 21, 2019 Pain, even the emotional kind, can be felt deep down in the…
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