Opioid Crisis Has Doctors Studying Their Own Prescription Data

Physicians prescribing opioids can compare how often they hand out the pills relative to their peers in an effort to mine prescription data to fight the abuse of addictive painkillers.

In a $79 million contract with Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, a health care quality consultant group is developing reports giving medical professionals a picture of their opioid prescription stats in an effort to enlighten them about their own prescribing patterns.

Tennessee-based Qsource, which leads cross-state coalition atom Alliance, developed the dashboards last year using claims data from Medicare’s Part D drug program. The reports tell physicians and ...