Addiction Medicine

Training path

1. College (bachelor’s degree) 4 years
2. Medical school (MD or DO) 4 years
3. Residency in family medicine / internal medicine / psychiatry / another specialty 3 years
4. Addiction medicine fellowship 1 year

Training after medical school: 4–5 years. From the start of college: about 12–13 years.

Usual minimum program lengths from ACGME program requirements. Some doctors take extra research years or a second fellowship.

Who they are

• MD (DOs make up the rest) 86%
• Women 37%
• Graduated 35 or more years ago 26%
• Offer telehealth 37%
• Accept Medicare’s approved amount 90%

Sex and credentials from NPPES. Graduation year, telehealth and Medicare assignment from Medicare Care Compare, which covers clinicians enrolled in Medicare.

What they do most for Medicare patients

• Established patient office or other outpatient visit, 30-39 minutes 48,510
• Established patient office or other outpatient visit, 20-29 minutes 23,938
• Subsequent hospital care with moderate levelof medical decision making, if using time, at least 35 minutes 18,332
• Testing for presence of drug, by chemistry analyzers 13,695
• Provision of covid-19 test, nonprescription self-administered and self-collected use, fda approved, authorized or cleared, one test count 12,690
• Subsequent hospital care with moderate levelof medical decision making, if using time, at least 50 minutes 7,306
• Psychotherapy with evaluation and management visit, 30 minutes 5,542
• Physician or allowed practitioner supervision of a patient receiving medicare-covered services provided by a participating home health agency (patient not present) requiring complex and multidisciplinary care modalities involving regular physician or allow 4,933
• Testing for presence of drug, read by direct observation 4,918
• Established patient office or other outpatient visit, 40-54 minutes 4,655
• Initial hospital care with moderate level of medical decision making, if using time, at least 75 minutes 4,100
• Insertion of needle into vein for collection of blood sample 3,861

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Services billed to traditional Medicare in 2023 (Physician and Other Practitioners data); drugs given in the office are left out.

What they prescribe most

• Buprenorphine Hcl/Naloxone Hcl (Buprenorphine-Naloxone, Suboxone, Zubsolv) 12.6%
• Gabapentin (Gralise, Neurontin) 4.2%
• Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen (Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen) 3.0%
• Clonazepam (Klonopin) 2.7%
• Trazodone Hcl 2.6%
• Atorvastatin Calcium (Atorvaliq, Lipitor) 2.5%
• Buprenorphine Hcl (Belbuca) 2.2%
• Oxycodone Hcl (Oxycontin, Roxicodone, Roxybond) 2.0%
• Quetiapine Fumarate (Seroquel, Seroquel Xr) 2.0%
• Amlodipine Besylate (Norliqva, Norvasc) 1.8%
• Oxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen (Endocet, Oxycodone-Acetaminophen, Percocet) 1.7%
• Duloxetine Hcl (Cymbalta, Drizalma Sprinkle) 1.6%
• Bupropion Hcl (Bupropion Xl, Wellbutrin Sr, Wellbutrin Xl) 1.5%
• Sertraline Hcl (Zoloft) 1.4%
• Lisinopril (Qbrelis, Zestril) 1.4%

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Share of this specialty’s Medicare Part D prescriptions in 2024, including refills. Select a drug to see which of these clinicians prescribe it most, and where.

Hospitals where the most work

• Cooper University Hospital Camden, NJ 18 Addiction Medicine at Cooper University Hospital
• Montefiore Medical Center Bronx, NY 10 Addiction Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center
• Ventura County Medical Center Ventura, CA 8 Addiction Medicine at Ventura County Medical Center
• Trinity Health Ann Arbor Hospital Ann Arbor, MI 8 Addiction Medicine at Trinity Health Ann Arbor Hospital
• Boston Medical Center Boston, MA 7 Addiction Medicine at Boston Medical Center
• Stanford Health Care Stanford, CA 6 Addiction Medicine at Stanford Health Care
• Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center Wilkes Barre, PA 6 Addiction Medicine at Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center
• Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA 5 Addiction Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital
• University of Michigan Health System Ann Arbor, MI 5 Addiction Medicine at University of Michigan Health System
• Summa Health System Akron, OH 5 Addiction Medicine at Summa Health System

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Clinicians who list the hospital in Medicare Care Compare. The number opens the list of who works there.

Schools they graduated from most

• Wayne State University School of Medicine 14
• Georgetown University School of Medicine 12
• University of Wisconsin School of Medicine 12
• Indiana University School of Medicine 11
• Loma Linda University School of Medicine 11
• Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine 11
• Tulane University School of Medicine 11
• Tufts University School of Medicine 10
• University of New England, College of Osteo Medicine 10
• University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine 10

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From Medicare Care Compare (Medicare-enrolled clinicians only).