Strategies for Successfully and Effectively Combating Addiction: Opioid Treatment and Jail Diversion

Course overview

Learn how states are attempting to include opioid addiction and jail diversion efforts for the SMI (serious mental illness) and SUD (substance use disorder) populations into the value-based payment world. In February of 2015 CMS began working with six states through the Medicaid Innovation Accelerator Program to help them pursue strategies to improve states' substance use disorder delivery systems, including developing payment mechanisms for substance use services that incentivize better outcomes. Pennsylvania alone has implemented 45 Centers of Excellence designed to integrate behavioral health and primary care for Medicaid enrollees with an opioid use disorder.