The
DASIS Report: Treatment Admissions with Medicaid as the Primary
Expected or Actual Payment Source, 2005
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Highlights
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SAMHSA's Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS) provides information on significant
primary sources of payment for substance abuse treatment admissions
reported voluntarily by States that complete the TEDS Supplementary
Data Set. This short report is based on data reported by the 27 States
or jurisdictions with a response rate of 75% or higher on this data
element in 2005.
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SAMHSA's 2005 Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS) there were almost 614,300
substance abuse treatment facilities with known primary source of payment
in the States with sufficient data for analysis. Nearly 81,100 of these
substance abuse treatment admissions (13%) reported Medicaid as their
primary expected or actual source of payment. Other payment sources
included: other government sources (35%), self pay (23%), Blue Cross/Blue
Shield (2%), other health insurance companies (4%), Medicare (1%), worker's
compensation (<1%), or other unspecified sources (10%). About 12%
were no charge substance abuse treatment admissions (free, charity,
special research/teaching).
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to substance abuse treatment admissions paid for by non Medicaid sources,
higher proportions of Medicaid-paid admissions in 2005 were young, female,
Black, or "not in the labor force."
- Medicaid-paid
substance abuse treatment admissions were more likely to report marijuana
as their primary substance of abuse (26% vs. 17%) and less likely to
report alcohol as their primary substance of abuse (28% vs. 42%).
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This OAS
Short Report, The DASIS Report:
Treatment Admissions with Medicaid as the Primary Expected or
Actual Payment Source, 2005, is based on the Drug
and Alcohol Services Information System (DASIS), the primary source
of national data on substance abuse treatment. DASIS is conducted
by the Office of Applied Studies (OAS) in the
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).
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