Report: SoCal Claims With Opioid Diagnosis Outpace Remainder of State

Private insurance claim lines with an opioid dependence diagnosis increased more than 24,000% from 2007 to 2016 in California, with an even greater increase of almost 32,000% in Southern California, according to a new study from Fair Health. Fair Health, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to increase health care cost transparency, used its database of more than 23 billion privately billed health care claims for the study, which focused on five states — California, Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania and Texas. The study also looked more closely at five large citi...