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Maintaining Medicaid Benefits for Jail Detainees with Co-Occurring Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders

Publication year: 1999 | Cataloged on: Jan. 09, 2007
ANNOTATION: Federal regulations do not require termination of benefits to those who receive Medicaid, Social Security Insurance, or Social Security Disability Insurance if they are detained in jail. Regaining these benefits upon release is difficult at best. Loss of benefits can jeopardize any positive effects the individual realized while detained, since she/he may not have readily available access to community treatment services. Lane County, Oregon, is presented as an example of how a community can successfully address this issue.
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