Updated: July 2, 2024
Initiative
Coroner/Medical Examiner - Mortality Data Improvement Project
Award Period
10/1/2023 to 9/30/2025
Total Amount for Initiative
$350,000 over 2 years
Number of Awards
45
Overview
The New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute Office of Drug User Health’s Drug Overdose Report Submission Reimbursement Program was developed to help support counties, and specifically, coroner and medical examiner offices, as they play an important role in providing data and reports on fatal drug overdoses occurring throughout the state while facing increasing costs.
Due to the increasing volume and complexity of drug overdose cases, it is imperative that accurate, timely, data and reports must be completed and submitted to our Drug Overdose Surveillance and Epidemiology Unit to develop an evidence-based state and local-level response to the drug overdose epidemic.
The State Unintentional Drug Overdose Reporting System, a program that collects data on all fatal overdoses occurring in the state, contacts coroner and medical examiner offices throughout the year to request autopsy, forensic, and toxicology reports. Reimbursement will be provided based on the number of reports received.