Montana Medicaid Planning A Supportive Housing Benefit

Montana Medicaid is exploring ways to design and implement innovations that could lead to a supportive housing services benefit as a way to reduce costs for homeless beneficiaries with the highest, 10%, of Medicaid expenditures. The Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services (DPHHS) is currently receiving technical assistance from the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to align policies across Medicaid and housing programs. The DPHHS Medicaid State Plan currently includes federal Medicaid reimbursement for many of the services that are provided as part of supportive housing, such as services intended to help the individual obtain . . .