Why One State Is Pushing Back Against Medicaid’s IMD Exclusion

New York state hopes to strengthen and remake state-managed behavioral health care by getting around the so-called IMD exclusion. It’s doing so by securing federal Medicaid funds typically forbidden from covering facility-based behavioral health through its latest 1115 waiver amendment. On Jan. 5, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced New York applied […]