The Framework For A Marketing Strategy For Addiction Treatment Programs

Medicaid is currently the primary payer for behavioral health treatment – both mental health and addictive disorders – paying about $54 billion in 2014, or 24% of the total $220 billion of U.S. behavioral health spending (see Behavioral Health Spending & Use Accounts 1986-2014 and  Medicaid: States’ Most Powerful Tool To Combat The Opioid Crisis). So, I was not surprised to read that Medicaid expansion has a big impact on access to medication-assisted opioid treatment (MAT).

In the 26 states that expanded Medicaid as of 2014, the volume of Medicaid-covered buprenorphine prescriptions for opioid use disorder treatment — a . . .