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A Montana addiction clinic’s plan to give people with substance use disorders as much as $1,966.50 in gift cards and vouchers to follow its treatment program is raising questions about the use of financial incentives with patients.

A Montana addiction clinic’s plan to give people with substance use disorders as much as $1,966.50 in gift cards and vouchers to follow its treatment program is raising questions about the use of financial incentives with patients.

“We shouldn’t have to fundraise for basic things like childcare when the Governor is saying we have a $2.4 billion budget surplus.”

A Montana addiction clinic's plan to give people with substance use disorders as much as $1,966.50 in gift cards and vouchers to follow its treatment program is raising questions about the use of financial incentives with patients.

Lawmakers in several states are expected to consider proposals to provide a year of health coverage to new mothers enrolled in Medicaid.

Lawmakers in several conservative-led states — including Montana, Wyoming, Missouri, and Mississippi — are expected to consider proposals to provide a year of continuous health coverage to new mothers enrolled

Many states, including Montana, are contemplating expanding postpartum benefits to more than the two months already required by law.

The state’s only psychiatric hospital for adults has been discharging patients to homeless shelters with no plan for care and sometimes without medications, according to a report from a designated watchdog group.

Lawmakers in several conservative-led states — including Montana, Wyoming, Missouri, and Mississippi — are expected to consider proposals to provide a year of continuous health coverage to new mothers enrolled in Medicaid.

A Missouri lawmaker has already filed a bill to extend post-childbirth Medicaid coverage past its current two month cutoff. Other conservative-led states are considering similar legislation.