Examines promising strategies to meet the needs of dually eligible individuals with serious mental illness, with an emphasis on opportunities to innovate with flexible spending within a capitated payment model.

Enhanced primary care for Medicaid enrollees with serious mental illness can help decrease emergency department use over time.

Enrollment in Maryland’s Behavioral Health Homes program is associated with fewer emergency department visits for adults with serious mental illness.

Accountable care organizations (ACOs) and tailored care coordination strategies may improve preventable hospitalizations and reduce racial disparities among patients with coexisting physical and mental health conditions.

This report offers recommendations for providing medications for opioid use disorder in prisons and jails and offers correctional-based case examples from across the country.

Health homes may increase access to mental health care and substance use disorder treatment in Medicaid enrollees with serious mental illness and/or substance use disorders.

This tip sheet provides guidelines for how health plans and provider organizations can use more person-centered language.

Virginia’s comprehensive Medicaid reform for substance use treatment services led to an increase in outpatient and community-based treatment and a decrease in emergency department and inpatient use among beneficiaries with opioid use disorder.

Describes how health care providers and their correctional agency partners can design medications for addiction treatment programs for people with opioid use disorder in jails and prisons.

Discharge to medical respite care leads to lower hospital readmission rates among individuals who are frequently admitted to the hospital.

Effectively implementing medications for addiction treatment programs in primary care settings.

Up to 50 percent of opioid overdose deaths reported from state agency data had the potential to be averted if interventions were delivered at certain opioid prescribing or critical encounter touchpoints.

Participation in syringe service programs can support motivation to change substance use behaviors and increase treatment participation in a rural setting.

An interdisciplinary, hospital-based addiction medicine consultation team improved substance use disorder treatment engagement after hospitalization.

A tool helps providers capture essential information when interviewing people experiencing unsheltered homelessness to support effective treatment planning.

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Supportive housing placement for people with substance use disorder (SUD) who are homeless reduces SUD-related health care utilization.

Medication-assisted treatment in correctional settings improves substance use treatment engagement and reduces illicit opioid use post-release.

Telehealth may address barriers to accessing substance use disorder interventions and is a promising alternative to in-person treatment.

Details the main elements of a hospital-based addiction care consultation team.