AMA Releases Recommendations For Ending The Opioid Epidemic

The American Medical Association (AMA) Opioid Task Force released recommendations calling on policymakers to eliminate barriers to treatment and to take additional steps to end the opioid epidemic.

The task force’s recommendations focus on barriers to treatment for substance use disorder and pain that result in so few patients receiving care. Among the barriers the AMA task force has addressed are prior authorization, step therapy, and other administrative burdens as well as inadequate enforcement of state and federal laws that require insurance parity for mental health and substance abuse disorders.

The new recommendations are:

Remove prior authorization, step therapy . . .