Medicaid Emergency Psychiatric Demonstration: Response to 21st Century Cures Act Requirements (Report to Congress)

Ellen Bouchery, Sandra Chao, Mary Allison Geibel, Claire Brindley, Christine O'Malley, Kara Zivin and Crystal Blyler

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Abstract: Since the enactment of the Medicaid statute in 1965, payment for services for beneficiaries ages 21 to 64 who are patients in institutions for mental diseases (IMDs) has been prohibited; this is known as the IMD exclusion.

Keywords: Medicaid Emergency Psychiatric Services Demonstration Cures Act Report to Congress; Medicaid Emergency Psychiatric Services Demonstration; Medicaid Emergency Psychiatric Demonstration; MEPD; institutions for mental diseases; IMD; IMD exclusion; psychiatry; inpatient beds; Medicaid; emergency department; costs; expenditures; serious mental illness; funding; disproportionate share hospital; forensic; length of stay; payment rates; evaluation; research; emergency room; emergency services; cures Act; Inpatient; Psychiatric; report to congress (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 88
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