“…Insurers should be more thoughtful of the risks posed to suicidal patients by strongly incentivizing 90-day medication supplies, especially because many insurers have already established their capacity to create prescription coverage policies that induce safer prescribing practices instead of potentially harmful ones. For example, the number of days supplied in an index opioid prescription has been linked to long-term opioid use, and many insurers recently have responded by adjusting their policies so that only short initial opioid prescriptions are covered without prior authorization (13), even when state laws mandate no such restrictions.…”