Colorado’s Medicaid agency is expanding a chronic pain management program that connects primary care providers with specialists to guide treating clients with pain issues as well as those struggling with opioid addiction.
The Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing announced the expansion in a news release on Tuesday.
The second phase of the program will connect primary care providers who are licensed to prescribe buprenorphine combination products, such as Suboxone, with specialists.
The original pain management program was launched in March 2015 and is modeled after a University of New Mexico program. In the first year, 84 providers across Colorado participated.
Primary care providers can participate in the programs at no cost to them. The state hopes to increase the number of providers trained in treating chronic pain and/or opioid addiction.
