Next steps for OTPs: Three executives on their vision for the future
Dec 24, 2017 · OTPs aren’t set up to help patients manage their active substance use, but often that’s what ends up happening because there isn’t a harm reduction program available in the community to provide those services.
OTPs, Profit, and Not-for-Profit: What’s the Fuss About?
Jun 4, 2019 · Training Quality Staff Is Essential But regardless of whether the funding comes from private equity or a private investor or a mammoth not-for-profit that decides to invest in OTPs, it takes time to train and develop quality staff. This is particularly true in OTPs, and it’s why expansion can’t take place overnight.
Details on How to Use Methadone Vehicles: Two OTPs’ Experience
Sep 3, 2021 · Any controlled substance, including buprenorphine, can also be dispensed from these vans. Before approval, methadone could be dispensed for opioid use disorder (OUD) only by OTPs. The approval means that methadone and associated services, including counseling, can go to the patient, and that patients don’t need to always travel long distances.
Counseling in OTPs: A Necessary Part of Treatment with Medication
Jun 7, 2016 · Patients in OTPs need individualized treatment, which often includes counseling of various types (see Sidebar below). “A number of OTPs pride themselves on providing counseling,” said Dr. Clark.
New York OTPs Call for Help from Flush State Budget
Feb 24, 2022 · OTPs have one overall reimbursement rate for toxicology testing, but testing for fentanyl is more expensive than for other drugs. In the current OTP reimbursement structure, testing for fentanyl is “cost-prohibitive,” according to COMPA.
Profiles of Today’s OTP Leaders – Addiction Treatment Forum
Jun 18, 2018 · Plenty of opioid treatment program executives are leaders in the field, but their names don’t get out nearly enough. This article is meant to change that. The list of leaders isn’t exhaustive, but it includes some of those at the helm of the nation’s opioid treatment programs (OTPs). AT Forum asked the leaders what they consider their main achievements, what they …
ONDCP’s Michael Botticelli on the Importance of OTPs in Treating …
Michael Botticelli, acting director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) and a longtime friend of medication-assisted treatment (MAT), dating from his years heading the Massachusetts Bureau of Substance Abuse Services, gave AT Forum an exclusive interview this summer on how opioid treatment programs (OTPs) effectively treat their patients who have …
Opioid Bills in the Senate: Focus on Medicare and OTPs
The big push, in which OTP executives from across the country visited 50 members of the House of Representatives and the Senate, focused on the Medicare bill. “AATOD and Mark [Parrino] have been working on getting Medicare coverage for OTPs for many years,” said Jason Kletter, PhD, president of Baymark Health Services.
Caught between the “more methadone” and “fewer OTPs” scuffle
Sep 11, 2024 · While Volkow’s call to increase the availability of methadone treatment isn’t new, it comes amid the controversy which has been brewing over years: whether to make methadone more available by increasing access to opioid treatment programs (OTPs), or on the far end of the spectrum by leaving the OTP option behind and “liberating” methadone in a variety of ways. …
OTPs Should Not Report Patient Information to PDMPs, But …
Aug 11, 2016 · The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) regulates opioid treatment programs (OTPs) and promulgates 42 CFR Part 2, the confidentiality rule protecting patient records. When state prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) came along—and they now exist in every state except Missouri—SAMHSA was put in the position of …