Iowa | NonOpioidChoices

State Facts

168

Deaths or 39.8% of all overdose deaths in the year ending April 2025 involved opioids.¹

578,140

Claims, or 3.3% of all Medicare Part D claims were for opioids in 2023 – an average of 44 per prescriber.²

34.6

Opioid Prescriptions were written for every 100 persons in Iowa in 2023.³

$23.5 Billion

the estimated total societal cost of opioid use disorder (OUD) in Iowa in 2024.⁴

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Opioid Settlement Funds

$316,447,891.29

State Spending Recommendation

National approved use: providing support for non-opioid pain treatment alternatives, including training providers to offer or refer to multi-modal, evidence-informed treatment of pain.

Member & Endorser Footprint

Voices is backed by a broad coalition of organizations across the state united by a shared goal: ensuring patients have access to safe, effective,  and individualized pain management throughout the continuum of care.

Co-Sponsors (119th)

Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA-1)

2025 Introduced Relevant Legislation

HSB 151

This legislation requires Medicaid and commercial health insurance pplans to cover non-opioid pain treatments on equal terms with opioids. The bill prohibits disadvantaging or discouraging the use of non-opioid treatments relative to opioids and guarantees immediate coverage upon FDA
approval.

Introduced

02/11/2025

Plan Impact

Medicaid & Commercial

Learn More

1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2025). Provisional Drug Overdose Death Counts. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/drug-overdose-data.htm

2. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2025). Medicare Part D Opioid Prescribing Mapping Tool. https://cms-oeda.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=5390718d875d4c049b1ac5976a9ff083

3. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2025). Opioid Dispensing Rate Maps. https://www.cdc.gov/overdose-prevention/data-research/facts-stats/opioid-dispensing-rate-maps.html

4. Avalere Health (2025). The cost of addiction: Opioid use disorder in the United States. https://advisory.avalerehealth.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Avalere-Health-White-Paper_The-cost-of-opioid-addiction_OUD-in-the-United-States.pdf