FAIR Health’s Opioid Tracker 2026 reports growth in telehealth and nonresidential opioid treatment facilities from 2022 to 2025, alongside a 32.7 percent increase in patients with opioid use disorder diagnoses among commercially insured patients.
The national diagnosis rate rose from 449 patients per 100,000 commercially insured patients receiving medical services in 2022 to 596 in 2025. The tracker draws on FAIR Health’s repository of commercial healthcare claims and presents national and state infographics.
Where Opioid Treatment Is Taking Place
Offices represented the largest share of service locations throughout the study period, but their share of claim lines fell from 43.2 percent in 2022 to 37.1 percent in 2025. Telehealth grew from 5.8 percent to 8.6 percent, a relative increase of 48.1 percent.
Nonresidential opioid treatment facilities grew from 2.1 percent to 10.1 percent of claim lines, a relative rise of 389.2 percent. These figures specifically describe billed service locations, not the number of unique patients or the quality of care.
The workforce delivering treatment also changed. Nurse practitioners were the fastest-growing specialty by share of claim lines. The share rose 67 percent from 2022 to 2025. Psychiatric nurses increased 47 percent and emergency medicine 44 percent.
For people researching rehab, the changes show why it can be useful to compare several forms of addiction treatment. Office-based medication care, telehealth, nonresidential opioid programs, and residential services may appear in the same local market, but they provide different structures and intensities of support.
What the Claims Say About Treatment Costs
Alcohol and substance abuse services and treatments accounted for 39.0 percent of all opioid use disorder claim lines in 2025.
Drug screening represented 21.3 percent, office, outpatient, and emergency room services 14.6 percent, psychiatric and psychological services 8.8 percent, and other laboratory procedures 6.6 percent.
The leading procedure code by aggregate allowed amounts was G2067, the weekly methadone medication-assisted treatment bundle.
It represented 9.4 percent of allowed amounts, with an average allowed amount of $243. Behavioral health short-term residential treatment without room and board followed at 9.3 percent, with an average allowed amount of $1,207 per diem.
Partial hospitalization represented 8.3 percent, intensive outpatient treatment 7.1 percent and established patient office visits with moderate decision-making 6.3 percent.
An allowed amount is the negotiated in-network fee under an insurance plan, including both the health plan’s payment and applicable patient cost-sharing. These averages are not universal price quotes for rehab centers.
Professional costs rose from 40.5 percent of total allowed amounts in 2022 to 50.9 percent in 2025. Facility costs fell from 59.5 percent to 49.1 percent, making 2025 the first year in the period when professional costs held the majority.
What Claims Mean for Addiction Treatment
The tracker covers commercially insured patients, so it does not describe uninsured people or those covered only by Medicaid or Medicare.
A rising diagnosis rate can reflect changes in substance use, screening, access to care, or claims patterns, and the data cannot separate those factors.
When comparing treatment options, patients can ask for a benefits check and a written estimate based on their own plan. Useful questions include whether the program is in-network, which services are billed separately, how medication visits are covered, and what out-of-pocket costs to expect.
Geographic differences can also affect availability. Tennessee had the highest 2025 rate of commercially insured patients receiving treatment for opioid use disorder at 1,551 per 100,000 patients, followed by West Virginia at 1,528, Mississippi at 1,373, Arkansas at 1,320 and Delaware at 1,256. The national rate was 596.
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