New Hampshire Medicaid To Cover Inpatient & Residential Treatment For Adults With SMI

The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is planning to provide Medicaid coverage for short-term inpatient and residential treatment services for adult beneficiaries ages 21 to 64 with serious mental illness (SMI). To do so, DHHS is submitting an amendment to its Medicaid 1115 Substance Use Disorder Treatment & Recovery Access Waiver. The amendment would also allow Medicaid to cover short-term stays in Institutions for Mental Disease (IMDs) for adult beneficiaries. A short-term stay was defined as more than 15 days but less than 60 days. DHHS requested an effective date of July 1 . . .