Identifying and reducing disparities in successful addiction treatment completion: testing the role of Medicaid payment acceptance

• Main Authors: Erick G. Guerrero (Author), Bryan R. Garner (Author), Benjamin Cook (Author), Yinfei Kong (Author), William A. Vega (Author), Lillian Gelberg (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2017-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Medicaid has become the largest payer of substance use disorder treatment and may enhance access to quality care and reduce disparities. We tested whether treatment programs' acceptance of Medicaid payments was associated with reduced disparities between Mexican Americans an...