Impact of Medicaid Institution for Mental Diseases Exclusion on Serious Mental Illness Outcomes
Our findings underscore the beneficial impact of IMD exclusion waivers on psychiatric-specific and all-cause health care resource utilization and costs as well as on incarceration rates for individuals with SMI. CMS may want to consider the results of this study in addition to other available data when granting waivers to states and potentially removing this exception from the Medicaid law.
Authors
- Heidi C. Waters (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5671-3558)
- Katarzyna Rodchenko
- Onur Baser (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3328-0072)
- Nehir Yapar
- Lauren Isenman
- Deborah Freedman
- Xue Han
- Rashmi Patel
Institutions
- City University of New York (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- The American Journal of Managed Care
- Published
- 2025-12-17
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.37765/ajmc.2025.89841
- Primary Topic
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00