Featured presenters with on-the-ground experience implementing the CA Bridge model for individuals with substance use disorder.

Medicare beneficiaries with complex needs who were enrolled in Medicare Advantage had lower rates of acute care utilization than those enrolled in traditional Medicare.

Social and legal services to address health care costs and utilization may be most effective for individuals with moderately high utilization who are less clinically complex.

Identifies best practices for implementing peer support interventions and advancing recovery-oriented care within mental health organizations.

Information such as patient-reported function and living arrangements can help understand which patients would benefit most from home- and community-based services.

Including spiritual care within care management programs in outpatient, managed care, and population health settings can enhance patient care and support the effectiveness of the interdisciplinary care team.

Simulation model estimates that national implementation of medically tailored meal programs for specific populations would achieve over $13.6 billion in cost savings per year.

Study details permanent supportive housing program implementation and how this impacts outcomes and costs.

Initiative successfully implemented several evidence-based and promising addiction care models across multiple medical settings, including an inpatient addiction consult team, a low-threshold bridge clinic, peer recovery coaches, and office-based addiction treatment nurses.

This free, paper-based version of the nationally-recognized ASAM Criteria assessment is available to clinicians to increase the quality and consistency of patient assessments and treatment recommendations for adults with substance use disorder.

Evidence-based behavioral intervention in which positive behaviors are reinforced with material incentives may address clinical problems among people receiving medications for opioid use disorder.

Emergency department-initiated buprenorphine for opioid-dependent patients demonstrated significantly higher rates of addiction treatment engagement than interventions without buprenorphine.

Virginia’s comprehensive Medicaid reform for substance use treatment services led to an increase in outpatient and community-based treatment and a decrease in emergency department and inpatient use among beneficiaries with opioid use disorder.

An interdisciplinary, hospital-based addiction medicine consultation team improved substance use disorder treatment engagement after hospitalization.

Describes how health care providers and their correctional agency partners can design medications for addiction treatment programs for people with opioid use disorder in jails and prisons.

An outpatient addiction treatment program intervention to facilitate connections to primary care improved patient health care engagement.

Details the key considerations for providers considering integrating peer services for behavioral health into their health care organizations.

Details the main elements of a hospital-based addiction care consultation team.