New York strengthens Medicaid coverage rules to expand access to mental health and addiction treatment amid federal rollbacks ...

The more than $700 billion in proposed cuts to Medicaid could be devastating to Pennsylvania’s hospitals, health care experts and advocates continue to warn. Major cuts to Medicaid funding could ...

The "opioid crisis" claimed the lives of over 80,000 Americans last year, and that figure was a 27 percent drop on the drug ...

Democrats are warning that proposed Medicaid cuts by Republicans could result in thousands of Americans being denied treatment for opioid addiction ... The spending reduction is part of the ...

Nevertheless, whether potential cuts to Medicaid funding would in fact cut costs is unclear. Like with any medicine, reducing access to treatments used for addiction can make people seek care when ...

Even by government standards, Medicaid is notoriously complex — an intricate web of carve-outs, cross-subsidies, and shared state-federal financial responsibilities. I once heard the funding ...

Addiction treatment is ... had been keeping providers away from Medicaid in the first place. We learned that unseen and unaccounted administrative costs borne by providers exacerbated existing ...

It illuminates why a crew of underfinanced, ultra-motivated addiction ... low-cost buprenorphine for his new patient. (Sammy was uninsured, partly because North Carolina is one of 12 non-Medicaid ...

In 2009, the University of Kentucky’s Chandler Hospital and Good Samaritan Hospital treated about 1,500 people for problems stemming from opioid addiction ... those costs are paid by Medicaid ...

11 The study findings provide evidence of an increase in Medicaid benefits for addiction treatment and of a major reduction in utilization controls after implementation of the essential health ...

Lifting the limits could help thousands of people — but could cost as ... group Harm Reduction Coalition, said he was worried that the new Medicaid funding for opioid addiction, if approved ...