Congratulations to our 2024 Bree Collaborative award winner for Best Practices in Dental Opioid Prescribing:
- Community Health Plan of Washington
- United Healthcare
Dental Opioid Prescribing
(Adopted September 2017)
The Washington State Agency Medical Directors Group (AMDG) developed a comprehensive Guideline on Prescribing Opioids for Pain in June 2015. The Guidelines were subsequently adopted by the Bree Collaborative at the July 2015 meeting. This workgroup will design and carry out strategies to implement the Guidelines. This workgroup met from December 2015 to April 2020.
Supporting Materials
Letter from the HCA Accepting Dental Prescribing Guidelines
Opioid Guideline Implementation Charter
Agency Medical Directors Group Interagency Guideline on Prescribing Opioids for Pain
AMDG Guideline Summary
Workgroup Members
| Name | Title | Organization |
| Chris Baumgartner | Director Prescription Monitoring Program | Washington State Department of Health |
| David Buchholz, MD | Medical Director | Premera Blue Cross |
| Rolf Christensen, DDS | Dental Urgent Care Clinic Director | University of Washington School of Dentistry |
| Tom Dodson, DMD, MPH | Professor & Chair, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery | University of Washington School of Dentistry |
| Gary Franklin, MD, MPH (Chair) | Medical Director | Washington State Department of Labor and Industries |
| Charissa Fontinos, MD | Deputy Chief Medical Officer | Washington State Health Care Authority |
| Bea Gandara, DDS | Professor | University of Washington School of Dentistry |
| Frances Gough, MD | Chief Medical Officer | Molina Healthcare |
| Dan Kent, MD | Chief Medical Officer | UnitedHealthcare |
| Kathy Lofy, MD | Chief Science Officer | Washington State Department of Health |
| Jaymie Mai, PharmD | Pharmacy Manager | Washington State Department of Labor and Industries |
| Theresa Madden, DDS, MS, PhD | Fellow | International College of Dentists |
| Ron Marsh, DDS | Member | Washington State Dental Quality Assurance Commission |
| Mellani McAleenan, JD | Director of Government Relations | Washington State Dental Association |
| Shirley Reitz, PharmD | Clinical Pharmacist Client Manager | OmedaRx, Cambia |
| Gregory Rudolph, MD | Addiction Medicine | Swedish Pain Services |
| Mark Stephens | President | Change Management Consulting |
| David Tauben, MD | Chief of Pain Medicine | University of Washington Medical Center |
| Gregory Terman MD, PhD | Professor | Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine and the Graduate Program in Neurobiology and Behavior, University of Washington |
| Michael Von Korff, ScD | Senior Investigator | Kaiser Permanente Washington Research Institute |
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