Austin addiction treatment company to partner with health insurance carrier
Austin American-StatesmanOct 18, 2018
"As a result of the opioid epidemic, health care plans are very proactively contracting preventative addiction services," MAP Health Management CEO
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Peer recovery support specialists are individuals who have been in recovery for at least three years and are trained and certified to support patients and their families detect relapse behaviors. Levenson said the company has found that treating patients with the help of a peer "supports a very strong alliance" and improves outcomes for substance use disorders.
"The beauty of that is a peer understands from their own experience what the individual they're working with has gone through," Levenson said.
Peer support is used in a number of fields to treat chronic illness. Studies have found that the treatment lowers hospital readmission rates and increases quality of life outcomes, according to the nonprofit Mental Health America.
In 2011, Levenson founded MAP, which stands for "measure action and prevention," in
"By working with MAP, Horizon is taking another step to increase access to programs and resources that can help our members get and stay on the road to recovery," Karp said.
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