Maine DHHS FY 16/17 Budget Initiative: Eliminate Reimbursement for Methadone Clinics

The document was released in January 2015. The Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) proposed budget for 2016-2017 includes a provision to eliminate Medicaid funding for methadone clinics. The provision is supported by the Governor. If enacted as proposed, DHHS anticipates that 80% of the more than 3,000 Medicaid beneficiaries currently receiving methadone as maintenance therapy for opioid addiction would transition to maintenance treatment in primary care with buprenorphine . . .