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The Veterans Health Administration has supported numerous efforts to increase MOUD availability, but a treatment gap persists: among Veterans with OUD, half do not receive MOUD, and over 5000 died from overdose between 2016 and 2021. To improve MOUD adoption in a large VA health system, we developed a care model to identify and proactively engage Veterans with untreated OUD.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The Virtual Outreach Low-Threshold MOUD care initiative (VOLT), a multi-faceted implementation bundle to support MOUD adoption, had 3 core elements: (1) an electronic health record-powered case-finder to identify individuals with untreated OUD and recent OUD-related clinical events (new OUD diagnosis, nonfatal opioid-involved overdose, acute care encounter for OUD, or referral to residential treatment for OUD), (2) case-finder result reconciliation by a physician champion, and (3) proactive tele-outreach to validated cases of untreated OUD by an MOUD prescriber.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The Case-Finder identified 526 encounters over a 2-year evaluation period. Most were either flagged for an inaccurate OUD diagnosis corrected by the physician champion (163, 31%), or validated as appropriate for tele-outreach (107, 20%). Of tele-outreach cases, 67 (63%) were contacted, and 37 (55%) were deemed MOUD-eligible. Of these, 28 (76%) initiated MOUD, all opting for buprenorphine. Retention on MOUD was 71% at 3 months and 57% at 6 months. The proportion of health system Veterans with OUD receiving MOUD increased from 44% pre- to 54% post-implementation.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>VOLT engaged Veterans with untreated OUD and recent OUD-related clinical events in buprenorphine care with high 3- and 6-month retention and was associated with a 10-percentage point increase in system-wide MOUD adoption. 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