States Face Fiscal Squeeze in Sustaining Medicaid-Funded Addiction Treatment Gains
This Milbank Quarterly article, co-authored by a Manatt Health advisor, examines how states have used Medicaid funding and federal support to expand substance use disorder treatment and reduce overdose deaths, and warns that recent federal policy and budget changes threaten this progress. The authors recommend states strengthen oversight, cross-agency coordination, and integration of SUD care with primary care to preserve gains under tightening fiscal constraints. For Medicaid managed care stakeholders, this signals ongoing pressure on behavioral health benefit design and state oversight responsibilities as federal funding support shifts.</summary> </invoke>
This is outside commentary from Manatt Health, not part of Medicaid Monitor's independently scored news coverage.