Establishing and Maintaining Medicaid Eligibility Upon Release from Public Institutions

Article Publication Date:

9/22/2010

Summary:

Many low-income individuals with severe mental illness leave state institutions without health insurance and therefore without financial access to the treatment they need to live successfully in their communities. Read an evaluation of Oklahoma’s efforts to develop and implement a model program to ensure that eligible individuals with mental illness were enrolled in Medicaid at discharge from state prisons and institutions for mental diseases.

Article Author:

Wenzlow, Audra; Ireys, Henry T.; Irvin, Carol; Hodges, Matthew

Topics:

Transition/Diversion from Institutions; Medicaid

Types/Tools:

Data; Reports

Populations:

Psychiatric Disabilities/Mental Illness

Sources:

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, SAMHSA

Programs/Initiatives:

N/A