Opioid Operators Archives - ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø News /series/opioid-operators/ ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø News produces in-depth journalism on health issues and is a core operating program of KFF. Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:25:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 /wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2023/04/kffhealthnews-icon.png?w=32 Opioid Operators Archives - ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø News /series/opioid-operators/ 32 32 161476233 Opioid Operators: How Surgeons Ply Patients With Painkillers /health-industry/opioid-prescribing/ Thu, 20 Jun 2019 21:15:59 +0000 https://khn.org/?p=963350 Even as awareness of the opioid crisis grew, prescribing habits of surgeons changed very little from 2011 to 2016, found a data analysis by Kaiser Health News and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Our team looked at surgeons whose Medicare patients filled a prescription for opioids within a week of having one of seven common surgical procedures. These averages may not reflect current prescribing practices. (See the methodology for more information.)

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