Alabama Medicaid Emergency Psychiatric Demonstration Operational Manual

In March 2014, the Alabama Medicaid Agency released a revised operational manual for private IMDs (institutions of mental diseases) participating in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Medicaid Psychiatric Emergency Demonstration (MEPD) project. Alabama is one of ten states and the District of Columbia participating in the demonstration. The three-year demonstration will permit Alabama Medicaid to provide payment to private psychiatric hospitals for inpatient emergency psychiatric care in IMDs to recipients age 21 to 64 who have expressed suicidal or homicidal thoughts or gestures or determined to be dangerous to themselves or others. The goal of the . . .