Challenge

Patients, physicians, and pharmacies can participate in suspicious opioid distribution behavior that supports opioid abuse.

Action

Designed an analytic approach to help customers target potential bad actors and better understand opioid abuse among physicians, patients, and pharmacies.

Result

Identified extreme cases where de-identified patients received multiple opioid prescriptions on the same day from the same doctor and filled their prescriptions at the same pharmacy at different times during the same day.