The number of children ages 1 to 17 admitted to hospitals for an overdose of opioids nearly doubled from 797 patients between 2004 and 2007 and 1,504 between 2012 and 2015. The oldest children in the study in Pediatrics, those between 12 and 17, accounted for over 60% of patients admitted for opioid overdose.
Thirty-nine states had contracts with comprehensive risk-based Medicaid managed care organizations and in 29 of those states, 75% or more of the Medicaid beneficiaries were enrolled in one of those organizations. A large majority (27 of 32) of the Medicaid expansion states used managed care organizations to cover newly eligibly adults.