The addiction crisis is increasingly eroding health systems' finances, with the treatment of opioid use disorder (OUD) costing hospitals more than $95 billion a year, new data from Premier Inc.'s PINC AI™ AI Applied Sciences shows.
That's 7.86% of all hospital expenditures, according to the data, which was released first to Axios.
The big picture: The opioid epidemic has had an enormous human toll, and solving the crisis is critical for patients and for society. But fixing the epidemic can also improve hospital finances, Premier researchers wrote in a blog post.
