Why Aren’t More Doctors Treating Addiction with Medication?
Evidence-based analysis supports the efficacy of MAT, particularly compared to abstinence-based programs. SAMHSA reports...
Drug Courts, Addiction Treatment in Prison, and the Relationship Between Addiction and Crime
In the United States, crime and drug use are often linked. When the NDIC reports that the cost of drug use is $193 billion annually, for example, that figure heavily factors in not only health fees and premature deaths but…
Why Your Claims Are Getting Denied (And How AZZLY Helps)
Common Claim Denial reasons The number one cause for a denial is that a patient is ineligible for services on the Date of Service on the claim. AZZLY has automated Eligibility which automatically runs at a preset time and on…
Why Our Staff Became Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) Advocates
In October, the AZZLY® Lake Nona staff attended the Certified Medication Assisted Treatment Advocate (CMA) Training Course. The course ran eight hours and was a pre-conference event as part of the 2019 American Association for the Treatment of Opioid Dependence…
Medicare/Medicaid Will Cover Opioid Treatment Programs in 2020
Effective January 1, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will pay Opioid Treatment Programs (OTPs) through bundled payments for opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment services in an episode of care provided to people with Medicare Part B…
Emerging Trends in Addiction Treatment
INFOGRAPHIC >> Did You Know between 1980 and 1984, there were approximately 1.3 million first-time...
Behavioral Health and Addiction Treatment Providers Should Have These Three Billing Features
As the opioid epidemic continues to rise, some behavioral health and addiction treatment providers are experiencing the effects of an increased patient load, increased regulations, and technological lag. With all of these, one aspect most affected is billing. Providers may…
Unsatisfied with Your EHR?
AZZLY recently began a relationship with a behavioral healthcare and addiction treatment organization employing more than 400 treatment professionals. Prior to evaluating AZZLY Rize, this organization used another specialty-specific electronic health record (EHR). In this article we will evaluate some…
There are Billions of Dollars in Funding for Addiction Treatment Providers. Do You Qualify?
Opioid overdoses are in decline for the first time in years. Would you know it from looking at your community? In some states—places like Alabama, Connecticut, Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Nebraska, and West Virginia—Opioid Use Disorder…
