This issue brief provides information on the number of Medicaid enrollees with opioid addiction, Medicaid spending on these enrollees, and the implications of the BCRA as states work to combat this public health crisis. Drawing on state-level data available for FY 2013, this brief provides insight into Medicaid’s role, but from a time predating the expansion and current focus on the opioid epidemic. Thus effects shown here will undoubtedly understate Medicaid’s role today, but provide insight into the scope of Medicaid’s impact on the opioid addiction challenge.”
Source: KFF.org – July 14, 2017
See related Medicaid article: Medicaid affects millions of Americans, young and old available at: http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/13/health/medicaid-explainer-bn/index.html
