Obama Lays Out Comprehensive Plan To Stem Opioid Crisis

President Obama surged forward with a comprehensive plan to end the rampant opioid crisis that includes putting mental health and substance benefits in Medicaid on par with other benefits and increasing access to medication-assisted treatment -- proposals that top off his request for $1.1 billion in new funding in fiscal 2017 to address the issue. CMS finalized a rule on Tuesday making mental health and substance abuse benefits comparable to medical and surgical ones in Medicaid and the Children's Health...