SUPPORT Act Guidance Still Missing Months After CMS Promised E&C

Four long overdue Medicaid guidance documents meant to help states tackle the nation’s opioid crisis are still missing, months after CMS and HHS officials promised the House Energy & Commerce health subcommittee in early March they’d get the guidance out sometime this spring. The four pieces of guidance were required by the 2018 opioid law known as the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act, but an Inside Health Policy special report in February found that CMS and HHS had...