Cost Estimates for Expanded Substance Abuse Benefits for Medicaid-Eligible Pregnant Women

摘要

The report presents findings from a project to provide cost estimates for expanded Medicaid substance abuse benefits for pregnant women. It includes a brief background on the scope of the problem, discusses existing options for Medicaid programs to fund substance abuse treatment, and results from a model developed to simulate new Medicaid expenditures to states where hypothetical Medicaid benefits were adopted or expanded to serve Medicaid-eligible substance abusing pregnant women. The model is applied to baseline data from six states to estimate expenditure changes related to a number of scenarios for change.