Relationship between Medicaid coverage design and receipt of medication for alcohol use disorder (MAUD): Probability of receipt increases based on comprehensiveness of plan.

ABSTRACT: Alcohol use disorder (AUD) affects one in ten Americans. As one of the largest payers of AUD treatment in the United States, Medicaid managed care plays a key role in facilitating access to AUD treatment services and medications. However, little is known about how AUD coverage in Medicaid managed care organizations (MCOs) affects treatment receipt. We examined the relationship between the comprehensiveness of Medicaid MCO plan coverage of AUD treatment and receipt of medications for AUD (MAUD). We used Medicaid claims data from Kentucky (2016-2019); our final analytic sample consisted of 202,230 newly enrolled Medicaid beneficiaries. Kentucky quasi-randomly assigns Medicaid beneficiaries to one of five MCO plans with different AUD treatment coverage. We leveraged the random assignment to M

SUBMITTER: Estrada MAG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12410402 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature