Demonstrates that Housing First programs and associated support services reduced health care related expenditures for the Massachusetts Medicaid program.

Initiative successfully implemented several evidence-based and promising addiction care models across multiple medical settings, including an inpatient addiction consult team, a low-threshold bridge clinic, peer recovery coaches, and office-based addiction treatment nurses.

Housing First programs reduce homelessness and health care use more effectively than Treatment First approaches.

Toolkit offers health care stakeholders in rural areas with practical information to support the design, implementation, and evaluation of community paramedicine programs.

A randomized clinical trial of an 18-month comprehensive intervention showed significant reductions in cardiovascular disease risk in adults with serious mental illness.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.