Keeping Up With The Changing Medicaid Addiction Treatment Landscape

Addiction treatment has been a hot topic in the news over the past few months, from the opioid crisis taking over states and communities, to the release of a new implant that administers buprenorphine (see The Opioid Epidemic: By the Numbers and Long-Acting Opioid Treatment Could Be Available In A Month). But, in addition to these mainstream news stories, there have also been important policy changes in Medicaid addiction treatment – states can now receive federal reimbursement for services provided at institutions of mental diseases (see The End Of IMD Exclusion?).

In an attempt to get a bead on the . . .