Cost Estimates for Expanded Substance Abuse Benefits for Medicaid-Eligible Pregnant Women

Addresses questions about the extensiveness of substance-exposed births, the types of treatment programs used by substance-abusing (SA) women, the costs of treatment, & the costs of maternal & infant complications from SA that might be avoided if women abstain from SA. Five distinct policy interventions were compared: expanded SA screening & treatment; expanded outreach & referral into prenatal care & SA treatment; increased reimbursement to Medicaid-participating SA providers; increased Medicaid participation of outpatient treatment programs; & residential treatment programs.Cost Estimates for Expanded Substance Abuse Benefits for Medicaid-Eligible Pregnant Women, was published 1994 under ISBN 9780788112720 and ISBN 0788112724.