Caring for Opioid Use Disorder Patients Costs Hospitals $95B Per Year
- Caring for patients with opioid use disorders (OUDs) costs hospitals more than $95 billion per year and accounts for almost 8 percent of all hospital spending, according to data from PINC AI Applied Sciences (PAS). PAS data scientists used the PINC AI Healthcare Database (PHD) to analyze discharges for emergency department (ED) outpatient visits...
