CMS Innovation Center Announces Awardees for the Maternal Opioid Misuse (MOM) and Integrated Care for Kids (InCK) Models

CMS Innovation Center Announces Awardees for the Maternal Opioid Misuse (MOM) and Integrated Care for Kids (InCK) Models Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced ten states selected to receive funding under the Maternal Opioid Misuse (MOM) Model. These selections are the next step in the CMS multi-pronged strategy to combat the nation’s opioid crisis and address fragmentation in the care of pregnant and postpartum Medicaid beneficiaries with opioid use disorder (OUD). The MOM Model has the potential to improve the quality of care and reduce expenditures for pregnant and postpartum women with OUD as well as their infants, increase access to treatment, and create sustainable coverage and payment strategies that support ongoing coordination and integration of care. CMS also issued eight cooperative agreements for the Integrated Care for Kids (InCK) Model, which will begin in early 2020 in seven states. Launching in January 2020, this seven-year model is another part of CMS’s strategy to fight the opioid crisis and address its impact on vulnerable Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)-covered children and their caregivers. The InCK Model aims to improve child health, reduce avoidable inpatient stays and out-of-home placement, and create sustainable payment models to coordinate physical and behavioral health care with services to address health-related needs. The MOM Model will have a five-year period of performance beginning in January 2020 with three different types of funding, totaling approximately $50,000,000. Specifically, awardees will use the funds to transition into the new model of care, and then fully implement their plan. The following 10 states have been awarded MOM Model funding: Colorado, Indiana, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Missouri, New Hampshire, Tennessee, Texas, and West Virginia. InCK funding will provide Connecticut, Illinois (2 awards), New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, and Oregon with the flexibility to design interventions for their local communities that align health care delivery with child welfare support, educational systems, housing and nutrition services, mobile crisis response services, maternal and child health systems, and other relevant service systems. By bringing together medical, behavioral, and community-based services, InCK strives to reduce fragmentation in service delivery and expand access to care for children and youth. For additional details about the InCK Model, please visit: https://innovation.cms.gov/initiatives/integrated-care-for-kids-model/. For additional information about the MOM Model, please visit: https://innovation.cms.gov/initiatives/maternal-opioid-misuse-model/. For additional information about how the two models compare, please visit: https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/fact-sheets/comparing-inck-mom-models.