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Establishing and Maintaining Medicaid Eligibility upon Release from Public Institutions

Under contract with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. (MPR) worked with Oklahoma to develop, implement, and evaluate a model program to ensure that eligible individuals with mental illness are enrolled in Medicaid when discharged from state institutions. As a result of extensive collaboration across state agencies and with MPR, Oklahoma implemented a new program in July 2007 to help inmates with serious mental illness in three correctional facilities complete disability and Medicaid applications. Oklahoma also gathered detailed information on the Medicaid enrollment status of clients entering the state’s largest institution for mental diseases (IMD) to determine whether implementing a similar program in IMDs would be beneficial. This report describes the evaluation of these efforts.

Available online

http://download.ncadi.samhsa.gov/

Author(s)

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

Date

July 2010

Publisher

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES