Medicaid delivery system reforms to combat the opioid crisis
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Series Title(s):
- Issue brief (Milbank Memorial Fund)
- Author(s):
- Kennedy, Susan, author Sheets, Logan, author
- Contributor(s):
- Milbank Memorial Fund, issuing body.
- Publication:
- New York, NY : Milbank Memorial Fund, March 2021
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Medicaid -- organization & administration Opioid Epidemic -- prevention & control Opioid-Related Disorders -- therapy Patient Outcome Assessment Patient-Centered Care Patient Transfer State Government United States
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- People with opioid use disorder (OUD) have complex needs and characteristics that often make effective, continuous addiction treatment a challenge. Individuals with OUD are disproportionately impacted by co-occurring chronic conditions, higher rates of social service utilization, and higher rates of involvement in the criminal justice system. Furthermore, OUD care is financed and delivered separately from other medical care, making it hard for individuals with OUD to access and remain engaged in treatment due to care complexity and a lack of care coordination. As the major payer for OUD treatment in the United States, Medicaid programs are uniquely positioned to enact innovative delivery system reforms that can significantly improve OUD treatment outcomes. Most state Medicaid OUD care delivery innovations can be categorized into two main areas: (1) health homes and (2) warm handoffs and care transitions. This brief provides an overview of these approaches and offers recent examples from state Medicaid programs based on findings from an OUD policy inventory of nine state Medicaid programs that have been substantially impacted by the opioid epidemic and participate in the Medicaid Outcomes Distributed Research Network (MODRN).
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (7 pages, 3 unnumbered pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 9918350586906676 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/9918350586906676