Toolkit

Provides guidance to physicians and pharmacists on buprenorphine regulatory requirements, prescribing, dispensing, and safety recommendations and additional information to improve decision making and promote beneficial outcomes.

Addresses concerns about prescription drug abuse and maternal-fetal exposure to opioids.

Includes resources for hospitals and health systems to share with clinicians and patients and to enhance partnerships within their communities.

Addresses NAS, including maternal risk factors during pregnancy, social risk factors, assessment, and treatment.

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.