{"title":"Report: Mental health support largely absent in Medicaid HCBS programming","authors":"Gary Enos","doi":"10.1002/mhw.34409","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>States are largely missing an opportunity to improve outcomes for older adults with mental health needs through use of home- and community-based services (HCBS) under Medicaid, a newly released report suggests. The report's co-authors found that only an estimated 2% of older adults with serious mental illness (SMI) who are covered by Medicaid receive HCBS services specific to their mental illness.</p>","PeriodicalId":100916,"journal":{"name":"Mental Health Weekly","volume":"35 15","pages":"1-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Mental Health Weekly","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mhw.34409","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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States are largely missing an opportunity to improve outcomes for older adults with mental health needs through use of home- and community-based services (HCBS) under Medicaid, a newly released report suggests. The report's co-authors found that only an estimated 2% of older adults with serious mental illness (SMI) who are covered by Medicaid receive HCBS services specific to their mental illness.