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Lawmakers discuss residential substance‑use treatment coverage and recovery bill planning
Summary
The committee reviewed provisions from Act 22 (S36) requiring AHS to cover medically necessary, medically monitored residential treatment and to review Medicaid payment models; members also discussed the repeal of old 'public inebriate' language and planned presentations from Health, DMH and DOC on services for incapacitated individuals.
The Senate Health & Welfare committee examined Act 22 (S36) and related recovery work. Speaker 2 summarized the bill's residential‑treatment language and said it requires AHS to provide coverage for “medically necessary, high intensity, medically monitored residential treatment episodes” and for clinically managed lower‑intensity residential episodes…
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