A Home and Healing: How Medicaid Improves Health and Lowers Costs Among Members Experiencing Homelessness

People experiencing homelessness face multiple health conditions that traditional medical care alone cannot address. Without stable housing, managing health becomes nearly impossible, creating a cycle of emergency room visits, hospitalizations and deteriorating health outcomes that drive up costs for both individuals and the health care system.

Across the country, states are recognizing that this growing subset of Medicaid members with complex health conditions who experience homelessness requires a different approach.

A new issue brief prepared by Manatt Health Managing Director for the California Health Care Foundation explores the reasons and methods behind multiple state Medicaid programs’ efforts to address the challenge of helping people move from the streets to permanent housing and health stability. The states cross the political spectrum and include Arizona, California, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Montana and North Carolina.

Learn more and download the full brief .