Recovery Month Highlights Evidence-Based Principles for Medicaid Behavioral Health Policy

Manatt Health uses National Recovery Month as a framework to outline evidence-based recovery principles that should guide Medicaid policies addressing substance use disorders and mental illness. The piece emphasizes SAMHSA's four recovery dimensions—health, home, purpose, and community—and presents recovery data showing that over 74% of adults who perceived alcohol or drug problems consider themselves in recovery or recovered. The analysis offers a public health roadmap relevant to Medicaid MCOs designing behavioral health benefits and state agencies setting policy standards for recovery-oriented care.

Behavioral Health · Managed Care

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