No significant benefits seen for most measures of utilization, quality, outcomes

No significant benefits seen for most measures of utilization, quality, outcomes

Changes are happening now because a prohibition on removing Medicaid coverage during the pandemic has now been lifted

States are now reevaluating Medicaid eligibility after having been prohibited from dropping people during the early years of the pandemic

State-to-national Medicaid indices for psychiatrists' mental health services varied from 0.46 to 2.34 in Pennsylvania and Nebraska, respectively

By summer, all federal prisons will offer medications to treat substance use disorder

Care would begin 90 days before someone is scheduled to be released, offering supports that do not currently exist

However, overall, mental health visits were down at federally qualified health centers during the pandemic

Findings for adult Medicaid patients, although cost savings may not sustain the case management program

Authors say this trend may be due to increased mental health care access