MORE Savings Act
Sponsored By: Senator Richard Blumenthal
Introduced
Summary
Would eliminate cost-sharing for opioid treatment and recovery support services across Medicare, Medicaid, and private health plans. It centers on medication-assisted treatment, overdose-reversal drugs, behavioral health care, and recovery supports like peer counseling and transportation.
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- Medicare beneficiaries in up to 15 states would be covered by a Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation demonstration that provides prescription drugs for opioid use disorder, behavioral health and community support services, and recovery-support services with no copays, coinsurance, or deductibles.
- States could add recovery-support services to medication-assisted treatment and receive an enhanced 90 percent Federal Medical Assistance Percentage for MAT expenditures during the specified initial period.
- For plan years beginning on or after January 1, 2027, group health plans and health insurance issuers would be required to cover opioid-use-disorder drugs, behavioral health services including licensed non-hospital residential care, and community recovery supports without cost-sharing.
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
3 provisions identified: 3 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
Medicare model to remove opioid costs
If enacted, Medicare would run a demonstration in 15 States to eliminate copays, coinsurance, and deductibles for certain opioid drugs, behavioral health treatment, and recovery supports like peer counseling and rides. The 15 States would be chosen for high shares of Medicare beneficiaries, high opioid overdose death rates, and large rural areas. The model must begin within six months after enactment and cannot be ended or changed for five years.
More Medicaid support for recovery
If enacted, States could choose to add recovery-support services, like peer counseling and transportation, to Medicaid medication-assisted treatment. Also, during the covered period that begins on enactment, Medicaid would get a 90% federal match for amounts States spend on medication-assisted treatment. That higher federal match would lower State costs and could make it easier for Medicaid enrollees to get these services.
No cost-sharing for opioid care
If enacted, group and individual private health plans would have to cover and not charge copays, coinsurance, or deductibles for drugs that treat opioid use disorder or reverse overdose. Plans would also have to cover behavioral health treatment for opioid use disorder, including licensed non-hospital residential care, and recovery supports like peer counseling and transportation. This requirement would apply to plan years that begin on or after January 1, 2027.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Richard Blumenthal
CT • D
Cosponsors
John Fetterman
PA • D
Sponsored 6/12/2025
Martin Heinrich
NM • D
Sponsored 6/12/2025
Sen. Luján, Ben Ray [D-NM]
NM • D
Sponsored 6/12/2025
Amy Klobuchar
MN • D
Sponsored 6/12/2025
Peter Welch
VT • D
Sponsored 6/12/2025
Roll Call Votes
No roll call votes available for this bill.
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