ArticleHealth affairs (Project Hope)2023
Medicaid Reimbursement For Psychiatric Services: Comparisons Across States And With Medicare.
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Abstract
Medicaid is characterized by low rates of provider participation, often attributed to reimbursement rates below those of commercial insurance or Medicare. Understanding the extent to which Medicaid reimbursement for mental health services varies across states may help illuminate one lever for increasing Medicaid participation among psychiatrists. We used publicly available Medicaid fee-for-service schedules from state Medicaid agency websites in 2022 to construct two indices for a common set of mental health services provided by psychiatrists: a Medicaid-to-Medicare index to benchmark each state's Medicaid reimbursement with that of Medicare for the same set of services, and a state-to-national Medicaid index comparing each state's Medicaid reimbursement with an enrollment-weighted national average. On average, Medicaid paid psychiatrists at 81.0 percent of Medicare rates, and a majority of states had a Medicaid-to-Medicare index that was less than 1.0 (median, 0.76). State-to-national Medicaid indices for psychiatrists' mental health services ranged from 0.46 (Pennsylvania) to 2.34 (Nebraska) but did not correlate with the supply of Medicaid-participating psychiatrists. As policy makers look to reimbursement rates as one strategy to address ongoing mental health workforce shortages, comparing Medicaid payment across states may help benchmark ongoing state and federal proposals.
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