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Committee hears bills to expand addiction treatment coverage: lengthen mandated stay and cover co-occurring disorders
Summary
Sponsors and providers urged the Joint Committee on Financial Services to lengthen mandated insurance coverage for inpatient detox and clinical stabilization from 14 to 30 days and to ensure coverage for patients with co-occurring substance use and mental-health disorders; proponents cited CHIA cost estimates and prior legislative reviews.
Legislation before the Joint Committee on Financial Services would increase mandated insurance coverage for inpatient detoxification and clinical stabilization from 14 days to 30 days and require coverage of transitional support services, and a companion bill would ensure patients with co-occurring substance use and mental-health disorders receive appropriate integrated care.
Representative Adam Scanlon, sponsor of H 13 19 (Senate S 7 72), told the committee that the current 14-day mandate under chapter 258 of the Acts of 2014 covers only the withdrawal period…
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