Table 1.
Individual, Prescriber, and County Characteristics of Chronic High-Dose Opioid Treatment Episodes
| N | % | |
|---|---|---|
| Total | 810,120 | |
| Gender | ||
| Female | 410,040 | 50.6 |
| Male | 400,080 | 49.4 |
| Age cohort | ||
| 18–25 | 7,331 | 0.9 |
| 26–35 | 54,032 | 6.7 |
| 36–45 | 110,218 | 13.6 |
| 46–55 | 184,479 | 22.8 |
| 56–65 | 239,640 | 29.6 |
| >65 | 214,420 | 26.5 |
| Prescriber specialty | ||
| PCP adult | 279,269 | 34.5 |
| Pain | 208,382 | 25.7 |
| Advanced practice providers | 168,725 | 20.8 |
| Surgeon | 66,203 | 8.2 |
| Oncology | 50,664 | 6.3 |
| Other | 36,877 | 4.6 |
| Payer | ||
| Commercial | 226,451 | 28.0 |
| Medicare | 299,652 | 37.0 |
| Medicaid | 119,998 | 14.8 |
| Cash | 41,346 | 5.1 |
| Other | 122,673 | 15.1 |
| County rural-urban status (RUCC) | ||
| Metropolitan | 719,100 | 88.8 |
| Rural adjacent | 59,088 | 7.3 |
| Rural remote | 31,932 | 3.9 |
| Fatal overdose per capita | ||
| Low | 247,987 | 30.6 |
| Mid | 274,837 | 33.9 |
| High | 287,296 | 35.5 |
| Primary care health professional shortage area | ||
| None | 52,047 | 6.4 |
| Partial or whole county | 758,073 | 93.6 |
| Rapid Discontinuation | ||
| Yes | 583,415 | 72.0 |
| No | 226,705 | 28.0 |