Toolkit

Includes information for healthcare professionals, professional and patient organizations, and community groups, including tips for getting started, fact sheets on the requirements for providing chronic care management in practices, and educational materials to share with patients.

Equips healthcare providers, communities, and local governments with material to develop practices and policies to help prevent opioid-related overdoses and deaths. Addresses issues for healthcare providers, first responders, treatment providers, and those recovering from opioid overdose.

Provides tips and advice about commonly used CPT codes for buprenorphine treatment; how to set up a cash-only buprenorphine treatment program; Medicaid, Medicare, and private insurance coverage for buprenorphine treatment; and cost of buprenorphine treatment to patients.

Provides an overview of the current prior authorization landscape, including the status of electronic prior authorization adoption; the toolkit also looks ahead to the future of prior authorization and industry efforts and changes that will create a more efficient process.

Distills key concepts and evidence-based strategies into short, easy-to-read sections; offers interactive activities to help understand how these concepts relate to a community's work in substance abuse prevention; and provides tips, exercises, and worksheets to apply the concepts within a community.

Provides a list of free materials, resources, services, and funding streams available to Arizona organizations working on substance use prevention, intervention, and treatment.

Provides clinical tips and advice about basic induction and dosing, complications of induction, transfer of patients from methadone to buprenorphine, maintenance dosage, tapering/discontinuation, and medically supervised withdrawal (detoxification).

Provides guidance for medical professionals seeking to apply for waivers of the special registration requirements defined in the Controlled Substances Act.

Helps patients fight for their right to MAT for opioid addiction. Provides tools and resources for individuals who are being told by courts, probation and parole officers, and child welfare officials to stop MAT against their doctor’s recommendation.

Provides lessons learned from organizations with established MAT programs, including making the business case for MAT, securing buy-in from staff, overcoming community resistance, paying for MAT, finding prescribers, obtaining licenses and credentials, screening and assessing patients, combining medication and therapy, and sustaining a MAT program.