MORE Savings Act
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Overview
The MORE Savings Act aims to improve access to treatment for opioid use disorder by expanding Medicare coverage and requiring health plans to cover medication-assisted treatment, overdose reversal medications, and recovery support services without cost-sharing. It will test a model to eliminate Medicare cost-sharing for these treatments and mandates coverage for these services under various federal laws, including the Public Health Service Act, Employee Retirement Income Security Act, and Internal Revenue Code. The Act also proposes an enhanced federal match for Medicaid programs that provide medication-assisted treatment.
Key provisions
- Requires Medicare to cover drugs and biologicals for opioid use disorder and overdose reversal medications without cost-sharing.
- Mandates that health plans cover behavioral health services and community recovery support services (like peer counseling and transportation) for opioid use disorder treatment.
- Establishes a model program to test eliminating Medicare cost-sharing for evidence-based opioid treatments.
- Increases the federal medical assistance percentage for states participating in Medicaid programs that provide medication-assisted treatment to 90% for a specified period.
- Allows states to include recovery support services as part of medication-assisted treatment under Medicaid.
- Selects 15 states to participate in the Medicare cost-sharing model, prioritizing states with high Medicare beneficiary populations, overdose rates, and rural areas.
- The Medicare cost-sharing model will begin implementation five years after enactment.
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