Table 1 Patient, payer, and clinician specialty of dispensed buprenorphine prescriptions
|  | > 24 mg daily dose | > 16 and ≤ 24 mg daily dose | 16 mg or less daily dose |
|---|---|---|---|
Total | 641,930 | 5,568,964 | 22,375,122 |
Payer | % | % | % |
 Commercial insurance | 17.6 | 23.3 | 23.9 |
 Self-pay | 25.7 | 10.1 | 6.8 |
 Medicaid | 14.3 | 34.4 | 40.7 |
 Medicare | 7.7 | 11.4 | 8.3 |
 Discount card/voucher | 24.7 | 12.3 | 11.5 |
 Other | 10.0 | 8.5 | 8.7 |
Specialty | Â | Â | Â |
 Addiction specialist | 4.9 | 3.3 | 2.5 |
 Emergency physician | 2.2 | 2.0 | 2.1 |
 Psychiatrist | 14.4 | 12.1 | 11.0 |
 Other | 5.4 | 5.1 | 5.0 |
 APP | 13.7 | 22.1 | 24.7 |
 Primary Care Physician | 51.9 | 48.6 | 48.6 |
 Pain specialist | 7.7 | 6.8 | 6.1 |
Age | Â | Â | Â |
 12–17 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
 18–25 | 2.4 | 3.1 | 4.3 |
 26–35 | 30.9 | 31.5 | 33.9 |
 36–45 | 34.2 | 32.5 | 32.7 |
 46–55 | 18.0 | 17.9 | 16.2 |
 56–65 | 11.2 | 11.5 | 9.7 |
 66+ | 3.2 | 3.4 | 3.1 |
Sex | Â | Â | Â |
 Male | 58.7 | 55.7 | 54.4 |
 Female | 41.3 | 44.3 | 45.6 |