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Appropriators hear growing use of SUD voucher, recovery housing; IMD cap and opioid settlement funds shape requests
Summary
Agency staff told lawmakers the substance use disorder (SUD) voucher is seeing increased applications and expenditures, recovery housing assistance spending has grown and the state faces a 45% cap on IMD reimbursements that affects general-fund needs; opioid‑settlement grants are supplementing some initiatives.
Laura Anderson, policy director for the Behavioral Health Division, summarized the SUD voucher program and related housing and settlement funding during the committee’s hearing. Anderson said the SUD voucher, launched in July 2016, had approved more than 9,000 individuals overall and that the program continued to show growth in applications through December 2024.
Program mix and costs: Anderson told the committee that residential treatment and higher-cost services account for a disproportionate share of current expenditures. She noted a statutory cap enacted in 2021 that limits SUD-voucher reimbursements for residential (IMD) facilities with more than…
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