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Recovery House CEO urges new definitions and Medicaid rate review for residential substance use disorder treatment; committee considers adding language to draft
Summary
Chad Vijay, CEO of Recovery House ACH, asked the Senate Health & Welfare committee on March 14 to adopt definitions for "high intensity" residential substance use disorder treatment and to require a Medicaid payment-model review that accounts for length of stay, co-occurring conditions and environmental needs.
Chad Vijay, chief executive officer of Recovery House ACH and president of the Vermont Substance Use Treatment Collaboratives, presented proposed language to the Senate Health & Welfare committee on March 14 to change statutory terminology and to require a Medicaid payment-model review for residential substance use disorder treatment services.
Vijay proposed replacing the term "long-term residential treatment" with "high intensity residential treatment for substance use disorder and co-occurring conditions," and separating "low-intensity residential treatment" as a distinct category. He asked the committee to reaffirm that treatment providers determine appropriate length of stay and to require rate reviews that account for the actual cost of care, co-occurring…
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