ArticleHealth affairs (Project Hope)2018
Medicaid Benefits For Addiction Treatment Expanded After Implementation Of The Affordable Care Act.
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- The Impact of State Medicaid Eligibility and Benefits Policy on Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome Hospitalizations.Contemporary economic policy · 2024Article
- Health Insurance and Mental Health Treatment Use Among Adults With Criminal Legal Involvement After Medicaid Expansion.Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) · 2023Article
- Changes in Medicaid Fee-for-Service Benefit Design for Substance Use Disorder Treatment During the Opioid Crisis, 2014 to 2021.JAMA health forum · 2023Article
- Coverage and Prior Authorization Policies for Medications for Opioid Use Disorder in Medicaid Managed Care.JAMA health forum · 2022Article
- Responding to the opioid crisis in North America and beyond: recommendations of the Stanford-Lancet Commission.Lancet (London, England) · 2022Review
- Estimating the impact on initiating medications for opioid use disorder of state policies expanding Medicaid and prohibiting substance use during pregnancy.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2021Article
- Using conjoint analysis to study health policy changes: An example from a cohort of persons who use drugs.The International journal on drug policy · 2021Article
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- Developmental Considerations for the Use of Naltrexone in Children and Adolescents.The journal of pediatric pharmacology and therapeutics : JPPT : the official journal of PPAG · 2021Article
- Assessing public behavioral health services data: a mixed method analysis.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2020Article
- Healthcare utilization of individuals with substance use disorders following Affordable Care Act implementation in a California healthcare system.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2020Article
- Healthcare Access and Utilization Among Persons Who Inject Drugs in Medicaid Expansion and Nonexpansion States: 22 United States Cities, 2018.The Journal of infectious diseases · 2020Article
- Implementing parity for mental health and substance use treatment in Medicaid.Health services research · 2020Article
- The effect of Medicaid expansion on use of opioid agonist treatment and the role of provider capacity constraints.Health services research · 2020Article
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Abstract
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) established a minimum standard of insurance benefits for addiction treatment and expanded federal parity regulations to selected Medicaid benefit plans, which required state Medicaid programs to make changes to their addiction treatment benefits. We surveyed Medicaid programs in all fifty states and the District of Columbia regarding their addiction treatment benefits and utilization controls in standard and alternative benefit plans in 2014 and 2017, when plans were subject to ACA parity requirements. The number of state plans that provided benefits for residential treatment and opioid use disorder medications increased substantially. States imposing annual service limits on outpatient addiction treatment decreased by over 50 percent. Fewer states required preauthorization for services, with the largest reductions for medications treating opioid use disorder. The ACA may have prompted state Medicaid programs to expand addiction treatment benefits and reduce utilization controls in alternative benefit plans. This trend was also observed among standard Medicaid plans not subject to ACA parity laws, which suggests a potential spillover effect.
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