2nd Speaker of the Month:

Amit Khurana, PharmD

Seminar Title: From Bedside to Bottom Line: A Win-Win Playbook for Addressing Opioid Use Disorder in Older Adults

Presentation Date: 3/27/2026

Presentation Time: 11:00 AM

Seminar Details: This presentation provides a comprehensive playbook for addressing Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) in older adults. The presentation utilizes the Age-Friendly 4Ms framework to outline interdisciplinary roles for clinicians, pharmacists, and social workers in identifying and treating OUD. It emphasizes that improving OUD care is a “win-win” strategy that enhances patient outcomes, such as reduced mortality and fall prevention, while simultaneously optimizing financial sustainability through Medicare quality metrics and various California-specific funding levers. By detailing clinical frameworks, treatment considerations for medications like buprenorphine, and a three-tier financial case, the presentation calls to action all healthcare providers to implement routine screening and integrated care models.

Speaker Bio: Dr. Amit Kaur Khurana is a health insurance executive and pharmacist who drives pharmacy strategy in Medicare, Medicaid, Commercial, ACA and TRICARE lines of business. Over the last three decades, she has worked in community pharmacy, academia, and managed care organizations developing metric-driven, holistic solutions that result in increased wellness of targeted members. She is passionate about the future of healthcare as a continuum and believes in strengthening strategic partnerships between payors, providers and hospital systems to achieve higher quality and lower cost outcomes. She currently consults on Azusa Pacific University’s Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program (GWEP) grant as a Pharmacy subject-matter expert.

Seminar Objectives:

• Identify at least three clinical presentations of opioid use disorder (OUD) in adults aged 65 and older that are commonly misattributed to normal aging, dementia, or other comorbid conditions.
• Apply the Age-Friendly Health Systems 4Ms framework (What Matters, Medication, Mentation, Mobility) to the interdisciplinary assessment and management of OUD risk in older adults across various healthcare settings.
• Understand how documentation of OUD risk screening generates measurable reimbursement value for eligible clinicians and organizations.
• Differentiate the quality and reimbursement mechanisms relevant to each practice setting represented in TTOUR communities, and identify at least one actionable financial lever applicable to their own organizational context.
• Formulate at least one discipline-specific clinical or administrative action to improve OUD identification, treatment, and documentation in their practice setting that simultaneously advances patient-centered care goals and organizational quality performance outcomes.