The Integration Of Medicaid Addiction Treatment Services

A few weeks ago we wrote about state coverage of addiction treatment benefits, which like mental health services are an optional service that states can cover. Unlike mental health services, however, the coverage of addiction treatment services is uneven. Two states offer no coverage for addiction treatment services and only six states offer the full-continuum of addiction treatment services – inpatient detoxification, non-hospital-based detoxification, outpatient treatment, intensive outpatient, residential treatment, and medication assisted treatment. (For more, see The Issue Of Limited Residential Addiction Treatment Coverage Under Medicaid and What Addiction Treatment Services Are Covered By State Medicaid Programs . . .