The Changing Medicaid IMD Landscape & The Inpatient Behavioral Health Market

The past couple of years have seen broad changes in Medicaid health plan reimbursement of inpatient behavioral health services (see The End Of IMD Exclusion? and CMS Issues New Guidance On Medicaid Managed Care Coverage Of Short-Term IMD Stays). Most recently, on November 13, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released new guidance to states that will allow federal financial participation for short-term psychiatric care in institutions for mental disease (IMDs) for Medicaid enrollees with serious mental illness or serious emotional disturbance (see New CMS IMD Rules Expand Medicaid Coverage Of Psychiatric Treatment Facilities). This comes . . .