CMS issues guidance on new Medicaid SUD provisions

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Friday released guidance for states implementing two Medicaid provisions in the Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment for Patients and Communities Act of 2018. One bulletin clarifies the residential pediatric recovery center option for certain infants with neonatal abstinence syndrome, and the other the limited exception to the Institution for Mental Diseases exclusion for certain pregnant and post-partum women receiving SUD treatment.
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