Leveraging Medicaid To Address The Housing Issue

Last week, my colleague, Athena Mandros, looked at the landscape of housing supports in the U.S. and what health plans are doing to invest in housing in a way that will reduce their costs (see The Future Of Housing Support). State Medicaid agencies are also tackling the housing issue (for the same reason), but their role is more complex.

As we've covered before, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has stated that Medicaid cannot directly pay housing subsides (see Is Housing Health Care?). But in June 2015, CMS clarified that Medicaid could cover housing-related services . . .