Colleen Grogan

About

Colleen M. Grogan is a Professor and Deputy Dean for Curriculum at the Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice at the University of Chicago. She is involved in multiple departmental roles, including faculty affiliation with the Biological Sciences Division and the Center for Health and the Social Sciences (CheSS). Her work encompasses social work, policy, health administration, and health politics, with a focus on health policy and social sciences. She holds offices at the University of Chicago's main campus and is engaged in graduate programs related to health administration and policy, contributing to curriculum development and academic leadership in these areas.

Research topics

• Psychiatry
• Medicine
• Psychology
• Finance
• Family medicine
• Internal medicine
• Nursing
• Psychotherapist
• Business

Selected publications

• Patient-centered care's relationship with substance use disorder treatment utilization

  Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment · 2020 · 43 citations

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• Coverage and Prior Authorization Policies for Medications for Opioid Use Disorder in Medicaid Managed Care

  JAMA Health Forum · 2022 · 40 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  Importance: Medicaid is a key policy lever to improve opioid use disorder treatment, covering approximately 40% of Americans with opioid use disorder. Although approximately 70% of Medicaid beneficiaries are enrolled in comprehensive managed care organization (MCO) plans, little is known about coverage and prior authorization (PA) policies for medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) in these plans. Objective: To compare coverage and PA policies for buprenorphine, methadone, and injectable nal…

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• Tailoring dissemination strategies to increase evidence-informed policymaking for opioid use disorder treatment: study protocol

  Implementation Science Communications · 2023 · 33 citations

  BACKGROUND: Policy is a powerful tool for systematically altering healthcare access and quality, but the research to policy gap impedes translating evidence-based practices into public policy and limits widespread improvements in service and population health outcomes. The US opioid epidemic disproportionately impacts Medicaid members who rely on publicly funded benefits to access evidence-based treatment including medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD). A myriad of misaligned policies and e…

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• Most States Allow Medicaid Managed Care Plans Discretion To Restrict Substance Use Disorder Treatment Benefits

  Health Affairs · 2024-07-01 · 11 citations

  articleSenior author

  Managed care plans, which contract with states to cover three-quarters of Medicaid enrollees, play a crucial role in addressing the drug epidemic in the United States. However, substance use disorder benefits vary across Medicaid managed care plans, and it is unclear what role states play in regulating their activities. To address this question, we surveyed thirty-three states and Washington, D.C., regarding their substance use disorder treatment coverage and utilization management requirements…

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• Medicaid Managed Care Prior Authorization For Buprenorphine Tied To State Partisanship And Health Plan Profit Status, 2018

  Health Affairs · 2024-01-01 · 9 citations

  articleOpen access

  Buprenorphine is among the most effective drugs for treating opioid use disorder, yet only a quarter of Americans who need it receive it. Requiring prior authorization has been identified as an important barrier to buprenorphine access. However, the practice remains widespread in Medicaid-the largest insurer of Americans with opioid use disorder. In this study, we examined how prior authorization for buprenorphine is related to plan structure and state political environment, using data on all 26…

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Frequent coauthors

• Harold A. Pollack

  Chicago Department of Public Health

  101 shared

• Peter D. Friedmann

  Baystate Health

  100 shared

• Keith Humphreys

  Stanford University

  75 shared

• Christina M. Andrews

  68 shared

• Amanda J. Abraham

  University of South Carolina

  61 shared

• Sunggeun Park

  58 shared

• Jennifer E. Mosley

  University of Chicago

  58 shared

• Richard M. Scheffler

  University of California, Berkeley

  37 shared

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