Maryland To Fund Medicaid Residential Treatment In IMDs

Maryland’s 2017 Heroin Treatment, Prevention, and Enforcement Initiative calls for the state to fund Medicaid residential addiction treatment in facilities larger than 16 beds, which are classified as Institutions of Mental Disease (IMDs), starting July 1, 2017. The services will be delivered through the fee-for-service (FFS) system and administered by the state’s Medicaid behavioral health administrative services organization (ASO), Beacon Health Options Maryland. Initially, the services will be for adults ages 21 to 64; by January 2020, the state will offer the benefit to Medicaid beneficiaries also eligible for Medicare.

Maryland Governor Larry Hogan announced the . . .