VIDEO: NOPAIN Act aims to mitigate opioid use
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Key takeaways:
- The Academic Orthopaedic Consortium has worked on ways the minimize the number of opioid medications prescribed.
- The NOPAIN Act allows nonopioid alternatives to be paid for Medicare patients.
In this video from the Academic Orthopaedic Consortium Business & Leadership Symposium, Grant E. Garrigues, MD, discusses ways to mitigate patients’ opioid use after orthopedic surgery, including the NOPAIN Act.
“A big topic of discussion at the conference was the NOPAIN Act. This is a way that the government can help pay for nonopioid alternatives in the pain space,” Garrigues, chief medical officer for the Academic Orthopaedic Consortium, told Healio. “Previously, pharmaceuticals that might have [been] felt to be cost-prohibitive now can be paid for your Medicare patients, but how to roll that out was a big point of discussion. Academic centers are now attuned to this and are martialing their resources to figure out how to utilize this to bring the access for these medications that can help decrease the amount of opioids that are prescribed for their patients.”
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