PDMP Dispensing Mandates Cut Risky Prescribing, Study Finds

Despite at least two recent studies that question the effectiveness of prescription drug monitoring programs, a new study finds that PDMPs do work to reduce risky opioid prescribing when prescribers are required to check the database. The reductions in risky prescribing, although small at first, become more dramatic after the prescriber mandate has been in place for a year, according to the report published in this month’s edition of Health Affairs. Similar reductions in risky prescribing were found when states allowed prescribers to delegate to their office staff the review of patient...