Executive Summary
Medicaid covers needed access to comprehensive Substance Use Disorder (SUD) treatment. Medicaid is the largest source of health insurance coverage for behavioral health services, including SUD treatment. Proposed Congressional changes to the funding structure of the Medicaid expansion will leave millions of individuals with SUD and OUD without access to life-saving care. Cuts to Medicaid may lead to states reducing the array of SUD services currently covered. And reduction in SUD prevention, treatment, and support can only lead to higher health care costs and increases in preventable suffering and death.