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.

Up to 50 percent of opioid overdose deaths reported from state agency data had the potential to be averted if interventions were delivered at certain opioid prescribing or critical encounter touchpoints.

A hospital-based program showed that peer recovery coaching can be seamlessly integrated into the workflow of busy emergency departments to address the longer-term needs of people with substance use disorders.

Describes strategies for how state policymakers can strengthen the use of The American Society for Addiction Medicine (ASAM) Criteria to improve addiction care delivery and coverage in the United States.

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.

Examined the challenges associated with randomized controlled trials in complex care and how the Distillation Method can help address these challenges.

An intensive care management intervention led to over $23,000 savings per year in total medical expenses for participating high-risk Medicaid ACO enrollees.

This description and application of a valid and reliable measure of equity of inpatient hospital experiences can help hospitals collect better data to meaningfully promote high-quality equitable care.

Summarizes evidence on costs of health-related social needs interventions and their impact on utilization and cost of care to inform ROI Calculator users.

While there is limited research on whether Medicaid home and community-based services are available, accessible, accommodating, and acceptable for marginalized groups, existing evidence shows that there are widespread disparities that policymakers should address.

When identifying patients with complex health needs for interventions, algorithms that rely on cost data as a proxy for health status may lead to under-identification of Black patients.

Nurses and members of fully staffed interdisciplinary care teams are more likely to use patient identification and care management tools.

Recommended set of evidence-based measures for high-quality care for patients with complex needs based on systematic review of relevant measures.

Peer support specialists can link patients with substance use disorders to treatment, but this study showed disparate outcomes for how one program impacted access to care for Black and white patients.

Recommendations for building a stronger, more coordinated, and patient-centered complex care evidence base.

A patient navigation intervention for people with substance use disorder led to cost savings of over $17,000 per participant after 12 months post-discharge due to reduced inpatient admissions and emergency department visits.