Prescribing Changes Reduce Potential Opioid Overuse Under Primary Care Plus Model

Practices participating in the Medicare Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) demonstration reduced the average dosage and the number of days' supply of opioids relative to comparison practices. The article discussed that across both the CPC+ practices and a group of comparison practices, potential opioid overuse declined from 19% in 2016 to 12% in 2021. In the third year of the CPC+ program, relative to the comparison group, beneficiaries attributed to Track 1 CPC+ practices had a 0.8 percentage point greater decrease in potential opioid overuse.  

The researchers said the greater decline for the CPC+ practices was likely due to . . .