Table 1. Characteristics of Indiana’s Waivered Clinicians by Willingness to Prescribe MOUD to Adolescents.
| Characteristics | Total, No. (%) | Clinician willingness to prescribe MOUD to adolescents, No. (%) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No, do not prescribe (n = 759) | Yes, prescribe (n = 24) | Yes, prescribe with conditions (n = 49) | ||
| Clinician credentials, Total No. | 832 | 759 | 24 | 49 |
| MD or DO | 476 (57.2) | 429 (90.1) | 16 (3.4) | 31 (6.5) |
| APCa | 356 (42.8) | 330 (92.7) | 8 (2.2) | 18 (5.1) |
| Clinician trainingb | ||||
| Addiction medicine | 55 (6.6) | 46 (83.6) | 4 (7.3) | 5 (9.1) |
| Psychiatry | 202 (24.3) | 185 (91.6) | 12 (5.9) | 5 (2.5) |
| Family medicine | 308 (37.0) | 270 (87.7) | 7 (2.3) | 31 (10.0) |
| Pediatrics | 13 (1.6) | 13 (100.0) | 0 | 0 |
| Otherc | 202 (24.3) | 194 (96.0) | 1 (0.5) | 7 (3.5) |
| Unknown | 52 (6.3) | 51 (98.1) | 0 | 1 (1.9) |
Abbreviations: APC, advanced practice clinician; DO, doctor of osteopathic medicine; MD, medical doctor; MOUD, medications for opioid use disorder.
Advanced practice clinician (ie, nurse practitioner, physician’s assistant).
Though clinicians could have completed training in more than 1 specialty, clinicians were counted in the first category in which they had training as rank ordered here (eg, clinicians counted as having training in family medicine did not have training in addiction medicine or psychiatry).
Clinicians included in the other training category did not have specialty training associated with behavioral health issues (ie, addiction medicine or psychiatry) or training associated with caring for adolescents (ie, family medicine or pediatrics) and instead had a variety of unrelated specialty training (eg, geriatrics, sleep medicine, surgery, internal medicine).