Behavioral Health Benefits

These are some of the behavioral health benefits covered under your Iowa Plan.

Medicaid Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services

Services are provided by appropriately credentialed mental health service providers to assure availability of the following services to address the mental health and substance abuse needs of both adults and children:

Ambulance services for psychiatric conditions
Emergency services for psychiatric conditions, available 24 hours per day, 365 days per year
Community support services
Home health services
Inpatient hospital care for psychiatric conditions
Intensive psychiatric rehabiliation services
Mobile crisis and counseling services
Outpatient services
Peer Support Services
Programs of Assertive Community Treatment
Psychiatric nursing services by a home health agency
Psychiatric or psychological screenings required subsequent to evaluations for persons applying for admission to nursing homes
Services of a licensed psychologist for testing/evaluation and treatment of mental illness
Targeted Case Management services to Enrollees with chronic mental illness

Medicaid Substance Abuse Services

Ambulance services for substance abuse conditions
Ambulatory Detoxification
Emergency services for substance abuse conditions available 24 hours a day, seven days a week
Evaluation, treatment planning, and service coordination;
Inpatient
Intake, assessment and diagnosis services
Intensive Outpatient
Outpatient Treatment
Partial Hospitalization
PMIC substance abuse services
Residential Treatment

IDPH Substance Abuse Services

Residential services
Intensive outpatient services
Outpatient services
Halfway House
Assessment (except related to drinking and driving)

It is the Iowa Plan's job to see that you get medically necessary services. That means that any mental health or substance abuse services you get through the Iowa Plan must fit your needs. We will follow utilization management guidelines for our decisions about your care, including the type of service and how long the service should last, and so will Iowa Plan providers.