States Enhance Incarceration Health Coverage

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HHS Authorizes Five States to Provide Historic Health Care Coverage for People Transitioning out of Incarceration

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HHS Authorizes Five States to provide Historic Health Care Coverage for People Transitioning out of Incarceration.

Illinois , Kentucky , Oregon , Utah , and Vermont to provide coverage before release.

Medicaid Reentry Section 1115 Demonstration Opportunity allows a state to cover certain services not otherwise coverable in Medicaid and CHIP up to 90 days before an eligible person’s expected release from incarceration.

There are significant health coverage and continuity-of-care needs that justice-involved individuals face when returning to the community.

These include disproportionately high rates of SUD , opioid overdose and overdose deaths, serious mental illness, and infectious and other chronic physical health conditions.

CMS continues to work with a range of other states on Medicaid reentry section 1115 demonstration requests.

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