The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today selected 10 states to receive funding under the Maternal Opioid Misuse Model to help coordinate and integrate health care and other services for pregnant and postpartum Medicaid enrollees with opioid use disorders beginning in 2021: Colorado, Indiana, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Missouri, New Hampshire, Tennessee, Texas and West Virginia. CMS also issued cooperative agreements under the Integrated Care for Kids Model to help seven states coordinate and manage physical and behavioral health care for children and pregnant women in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program beginning in 2022: Connecticut, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio and Oregon. For more information, see the news release.

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