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Posted
June 29, 2018
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Auditor report: Medicaid spending on addiction treatment soars since 2010

A state report released this week found that the number of Ohio Medicaid recipients who have an opioid addiction has quadrupled since 2010 (Source: “Medicaid spending on opioid treatment soars in Ohio, auditor reports,” Mansfield Journal, June 26, 2018).

According to the state auditor's report, In 2010, the state’s cost of treating opioid addiction through medication-assisted therapies was more than $13 million in 2010 and jumped to $110 million by 2016.

The number of unique individuals on Medicaid receiving medication-assisted treatment for addiction jumped from about 6,500 in 2010 to nearly 48,000 in 2016, according to the report. 

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