Procedural Benzodiazepine and Post-Vasectomy Opioid and Nonopioid Prescribing Variation in a Large Health Care System.

Despite the wide variation in vasectomy-related pharmacological pathways across a large health care system, most patients do not require an opioid refill. Significant variation in prescribing practices indicated racial inequities. Given the low rates of opioid prescription refill, combined with the wide variation in opioid prescription dispense events and American Urological Association recommendations for conservative opioid prescribing after vasectomy, intervention to address excessive opioid prescribing is warranted.