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.

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 ...

A strong economy has slowed Medicaid signups nationwide, but state programs are spending more on prescription drugs, long-term care and addiction treatment, the Kaiser Family Foundation reported ...

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.

States overhauling Medicaid rolls have accidentally dropped eligible people from coverage, sometimes for months. That can be dangerous for those who need opioid addiction medications.

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 ...