CMS issued guidance Thursday (April 28) updating decades-old policy and clarifying that people on probation, parole or home confinement are not considered inmates and they, along with those living in certain community halfway houses, can be covered under Medicaid if they are eligible. “Today's actions will immediately begin to give as many as 96,000 of America's most vulnerable citizens access to needed health care through Medicaid, including mental health and substance use disorder treatment, reducing the risk they will be...