President Trump’s proposed Fiscal Year 2019 budget for the Department of Health and Human Services would make combating the opioid epidemic one of the agency’s top priorities, including $10 billion in HHS funding to address the crisis.
As part of the effort, a proposal in the Administration’s FY 2019 budget is to “require states to monitor high-risk billing activity to identify and remediate abnormal prescribing and utilization patterns that may indicate abuse in the Medicaid system,” HHS Secretary Alex Azar told members of Congress Thursday.
