Changes To IMD Exclusion Still Under Consideration For Final Opioid Bill

Despite being omitted from the Senate's recently approved opioid bill, some rollback of a federal prohibition on using Medicaid funds to pay for substance-abuse treatment in large inpatient facilities may still be included in the final version of opioid legislation slated to be released in coming days, Senate aides say. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) and three other senators introduced a bill Tuesday (Sept. 18) that would significantly weaken the so-called IMD exclusion, a decades-old law that bars federal Medicaid funds...