'Extreme' Opioid Use and Doctor Shopping Still Plague Medicare - NPR

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'Extreme' Opioid Use and Doctor Shopping Still Plague Medicare NPR In Washington, D.C., a Medicare beneficiary filled prescriptions for 2,330 pills of oxycodone, hydromorphone and morphine in a single month last year – written by just one of the 42 health providers who prescribed the person such drugs. In Illinois, a ... Half a million Medicare recipients were prescribed too many opioid drugs last yearWashington Post Medicare Advantage plans pay physicians about the same as traditional Medicare, study findsHealthcare Dive all 5 news articles »

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