Executive Briefings | April 21, 2023
The IMD Exclusion—One More Time
Eliminating the Medicaid institutions for mental disease (IMD) exclusion for both mental health and addiction treatment would cost the Federal government about $4 billion per year, or so. This is one of the many findings of a new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) analysis, Budgetary Effects Of Policies To Modify Or Eliminate Medicaid’s Institutions For Mental Diseases Exclusion.
The "IMD exclusion" has been around since the Medicaid program started in 1965. The rule prohibits states from using Medicaid to pay . . .