Medicaid enrollees with substance use disorders have higher health costs than those without, around $1,200 compared to $550 monthly on average, KFF reported. advertisement Newsweek ...

For People With Opioid Addiction, Medicaid ‘Unwinding’ Raises the Stakes. Story by Kim Krisberg, ... Suddenly, her methadone prescription cost much more than she could afford.

More than a million Americans use Medicaid to get addiction treatments like methadone. But as states update their systems, some patients have lost coverage. Even a short gap can be life-threatening.

New Hampshire’s Medicaid program only started offering addiction benefits in August 2014, initially to about one-third of its roughly 186,000 beneficiaries. In July, all other enrollees became ...

The multi-year effort Virginia Medicaid took to increase MOUD access by almost 600 percent required concerted and collaborative effort across agencies, sectors, and stakeholders.

Psychiatry > Opioids For People With Opioid Addiction, Medicaid ‘Unwinding’ Raises the Stakes — It's unclear how many have lost coverage. by Kim Krisberg, Public Health Watch, and Stephanie ...