Interim Evaluation Of Indiana’s Section 1115 Substance Use Disorder Waiver

The report was published on October 31, 2019. It evaluates the Indiana Medicaid section 1115 waiver relating to addiction treatment services, which was approved on February 1, 2018. The waiver amends the state's section 1115 Healthy Indiana Plan (HIP) demonstration waiver to add new evidence-based substance use disorder (SUD) treatment services and to expand access to qualified provider organizations through a waiver of the Institution for Mental Diseases (IMD) exclusion. The report presents the state's efforts to implement the SUD waiver during calendar year 2018, and presents the state's progress toward the waiver goals . . .