Dive Brief: Higher primary care Medicaid reimbursement rates improve behavioral health outcomes among enrollees, according to a new report by the National Bureau of Economic Research.. The report ...

Until recently, many state Medicaid programs financed and managed behavioral health (BH) services for enrollees with serious mental illnesses (SMI) and others with high BH needs separately from ...

Delayed access to care often leads to more severe illness, greater emergency department use, and higher health care costs.

A lack of health insurance is also associated with financial distress, 7 which may cause or exacerbate poor mental health. Before 2010 Medicaid eligibility in most states was limited to children ...

A new study reveals that uninsured adults who receive Medicaid coverage experience negligible effects on their physical health, but substantially improve their mental well-being. It previews how ...

The program covers roughly 40% of all U.S. births. Those proposed changes are likely to have sweeping impacts across healthcare, including for maternal mental health. “If we do see cuts to Medicaid, ...

ABSTRACT. Objectives: Medicaid is the largest payer of mental health (MH) services in the US, and more than 80% of its enrollees are covered by Medicaid managed care (MMC). States are required to ...

Faced with 20 states that haven't expanded their Medicaid programs, the federal government is trying to tie expansion to getting more residents mental health and substance abuse treatment.

Fairview Range Medical Center had an eclectic mix of 20 patients in its inpatient psychiatry unit in Hibbing, Minn., on Thursday: Half were local, but seven lived 200 miles away in the Twin Cities.

Solving the mental health crisis, then, will require fighting for people to have secure access to things that buffer them from chronic stress: housing, food security, education, child care, job ...

New moms see slight improvement to mental health care, but Medicaid cuts could reverse that ... Contact WFYI and Side Effects Public Media's Health Reporter Benjamin Thorp at [email protected].