Bipartisan, Bicameral Bill Would Extend SUD Care To Incarcerated

Reps. Annie Kuster (D-NH) and Don Bacon (R-NE) unveiled a bill Thursday (Dec. 7) that would let Medicaid pay for behavioral health treatment in criminal justice settings, reforming the so-called Medicaid Inmate Exclusion policy in a way that advocates say would lower the risk of overdose and better prepare incarcerated people for community re-entry. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) introduced the bill’s companion in the upper chamber. Lawmakers passed a couple inmate exclusion policy reforms in last year’s omnibus, but they...