State Medicaid Director Letter #18-006 Leveraging Medicaid Technology To Address The Opioid Crisis

The letter was released on June 11, 2018, by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). It explains how states can use certain Medicaid funding streams to improve their information technology infrastructure to better address the opioid crisis. The topics include how states can fund prescription drug monitoring program databases, broader information sharing across provider organization types to facilitate timely information sharing, and use of telemedicine to provide counseling related to addiction disorder treatment . . .