The Office of Inspector General (OIG), within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), announced an update to a previously published report on the oversight of opioid prescribing and monitoring of opioid use. The initial report, published in 2019, summarized and compared information provided by eight States: Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Washington, and West Virginia. The update includes audits from an additional three States: Alabama, Kentucky, and Ohio. The report found that States have created policies and procedures, passed laws and regulations, used opioid-related data to perform data analytics, performed outreach to providers and patients, and implemented a number of opioid-related prevention, detection, and treatment programs.
- Ann Tucker