{"id":10911,"date":"2017-07-20T13:08:14","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T13:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.varshabi.com\/HCIM2\/?p=10911"},"modified":"2021-04-15T15:35:55","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T15:35:55","slug":"a-startling-number-of-medicare-patients-were-over-prescribed-opiates-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.varshabi.com\/HCIM2\/a-startling-number-of-medicare-patients-were-over-prescribed-opiates-in-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"A Startling Number of Medicare Patients were Over-Prescribed Opiates in 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post reported last week that according to a government watchdog, half a million Medicare patients were prescribed too many opioids for non-cancer pain in 2016, according to standards set by the CDC. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/to-your-health\/wp\/2017\/07\/13\/half-a-million-medicare-recipients-were-prescribed-too-many-opioid-drugs-last-year\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read the article &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our very own Dr. Claire Trescott wrote a blog on &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.varshabi.com\/HCIM2\/how-to-institute-guardrails-when-prescribing-opiates-for-non-cancer-pain\/\">How to Institute Guardrails when Prescribing Opiates for Non-Cancer Pain<\/a>,&#8221; which outlines five specific steps that all providers should take when prescribing opiates. For more detailed information, you can watch her webcast presentation below:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0R22emKpbl4\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>If you\u2019d like help standardizing opioid prescribing practices within your organization, please\u00a0complete the contact\u00a0form on the sidebar or call 925-265-4113, ext.\u00a05.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post reported last week that according to a government watchdog, half a million Medicare patients were prescribed too many opioids for non-cancer pain in 2016, according to standards set by the CDC. Read the article &gt;&gt; Our very own Dr. Claire Trescott wrote a blog on &#8220;How to Institute Guardrails when Prescribing Opiates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,13,11],"tags":[38,33],"class_list":["post-10911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healthcare-information-management","category-hsac-pulse","category-recent-news","tag-blog","tag-industry-insights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.varshabi.com\/HCIM2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.varshabi.com\/HCIM2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.varshabi.com\/HCIM2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.varshabi.com\/HCIM2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.varshabi.com\/HCIM2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10911"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.varshabi.com\/HCIM2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17559,"href":"https:\/\/www.varshabi.com\/HCIM2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10911\/revisions\/17559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.varshabi.com\/HCIM2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.varshabi.com\/HCIM2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.varshabi.com\/HCIM2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}