Association of provider opioid prescribing practices and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services hierarchical condition category score: A retrospective examination of correlation between the volume of provider-prescribed opioid medications and provider panel complexity
Objective: Opioids are being prescribed at increasing rates in primary care practices, and among individual providers there is significant variability in opioid prescribing. Primary care practices also vary significantly in complexity of their patients, ranging from healthy patients to those with mu...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2017-03-01
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| Series: | SAGE Open Medicine |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/2050312117701024 |