The Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) Commission is chaired by the Commissioner of the Department of Public Health to study the impact and outcomes of Medication Assisted Treatment.
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The Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) Commission was established in August 2018 with Governor Baker’s signing into law of chapter 208 of the Acts of 2018. The commission is charged with: create aggregate demographic and geographic profiles of individuals who use medication-assisted treatment; examine the availability of and barriers to accessing medication-assisted treatment, including federal, state and local laws and regulations; determining the current utilization of, and projected need for, medication-assisted treatment in inpatient and outpatient settings, including, but not limited to, inpatient and residential substance use treatment facilities, inpatient psychiatric settings, pharmacy settings, mobile settings and primary care settings; identify ways to expand access to medication-assisted treatment in both inpatient and outpatient settings; identify ways to encourage practitioners to seek waivers to administer buprenorphine to treat patients with opioid use disorder; study the availability of and concurrent use of behavioral health therapy for individuals receiving medication-assisted treatment; and other related matters.