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SC Medicaid enrollees within the growing opioid crisis : a look at the impact of the prescription monitoring program policy

University of South Carolina Institute for Families in Society, Division of Medicaid Policy Research; South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (South Carolina State Library, 2017-08)

This study examines the impact of the 2014 policy change requiring Medicaid prescribers to use the Prescription Monitoring Program (PMP). The analysis shows that, with the implementation of the PMP, reductions or changes ...