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Facilitating Medicaid Enrollment for People with Serious Mental Illnesses Leaving Jail or Prison: Key Questions for Policymakers Committed to Improving Health and Policy Safety
Facilitating Medicaid Enrollment for People with Serious Mental Illnesses Leaving Jail or Prison: Key Questions for Policymakers Committed to Improving Health and Policy Safety
Publication year:
2011
| Cataloged on:
Jan. 23, 2012
ANNOTATION: The access to Medicaid and Supplemental Security Income/Social Security Disability Insurance (SSI/SSDI) that justice-involved people with serious mental illness (SMI) should have is an area of frequent confusion. Answers to questions which “can help policymakers facilitate or strengthen effective collaboration among corrections, health, and mental health agencies to identify and enroll eligible individuals with SMI in these programs” are provided (p. 1). Reasons for why policymakers should care about and ways to determine answers to the following are explained: what is the percentage of the total corrections population is eligible for Medicaid and of these how many have SMI and of those how many are eligible for SSI/SSDI; how a corrections system identifies individuals at intake who meet the new Medicaid income guidelines and who also have SMI; and at what point prior to an individual’s release the corrections system begins the application process for Medicaid and SSI/SSDI.
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