Maine House Rejects Bill to Ban Medicaid Coverage for Opiate Addiction …
Maine House Rejects Bill to Ban Medicaid Coverage for Opiate Addiction …
The Maine House of Representatives today voted to reject a bill that would prohibit Medicaid coverage for medications such as methadone and Suboxone, used to treat opiate addiction. With one of the highest rates in the country of people seeking …
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Maine House OKs extending drug treatment coverage
Suboxone and Methadone treat addictions to heroin and similar drugs. Maine currently has a two-year cap on coverage for such treatment. Supporters say that putting a limit on the treatment puts patients at-risk for relapse. The measure faces a final …
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Treating addicts with medicine, respect
Maine has limited the duration of methadone treatment for which MaineCare recipients will be reimbursed. Treatment is not readily accessible throughout this rural state. And MaineCare recipients being treated for opiate addiction also cannot gain …
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