Headline
This budget impact tool can support correctional health care professionals in planning onsite programs that offer medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD).
Context
Given the high risk for overdose among people involved in the criminal legal system following reentry from prisons and jails, some correctional facilities offer MOUD, which is the gold standard of treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD). This tool is for correctional health care professionals seeking to determine the costs necessary for implementing and sustaining a MOUD program in prisons and jails.
About This Tool
The budget impact tool can support correctional health care professionals in:
- Viewing various resources and costs associated with the MOUD program in one dashboard; and
- Recording various fixed resource costs (e.g., accreditation and licensing fees), time-dependent resource costs (e.g., annual software system and training fees), and other resource costs (e.g., employees dedicated to the program).
A peer-reviewed study on the application of the tool describes a hypothetical MOUD model, using nationally representative costs, and found costs to be $2,885 per patient.
Takeaways
The budget impact tool can support correctional health care professionals in the planning and development of MOUD programs in jails and prisons.