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Variations In Schedule Iii Prescription Patterns In A Medicaid Population Pre- And Post-Policy, Radhakrishnan Nagarajan, Jeffery C. Talbert, Craig S. Miller, Jeffrey Ebersole
Variations In Schedule Iii Prescription Patterns In A Medicaid Population Pre- And Post-Policy, Radhakrishnan Nagarajan, Jeffery C. Talbert, Craig S. Miller, Jeffrey Ebersole
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The present study investigated variations in patient movement patterns between prescribers before and after House Bill 1 (HB1) implementation in Kentucky using network abstractions (PPN: prescriber-prescriber networks) from a one-month cross-sectional Schedule III prescription data in a Medicaid population. Network characteristics such as degree centrality distribution of PPN was positively skewed and revealed Dental Practitioners to be the highly connected specialty with opioid analgesic hydrocodone-acetaminophen to be the most commonly prescribed drug. Taxonomy enrichment of the prescriber specialties in PPN using chi-square test revealed a reduction in the enriched taxonomies Post-HB1 compared to Pre-HB1 with Dental practitioners being constitutively enriched …