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Committee backs referral of bill to make collaborative care a Medicaid benefit
Summary
The Health Finance and Policy Committee voted to refer House File 958 to Human Services Finance and Policy after a hearing where clinicians urged making collaborative care a reimbursable Medicaid benefit.
Representative Ruth Nadal introduced House File 958, which would make the collaborative-care model a reimbursable Medicaid benefit in Minnesota and provide one-time start-up and training funding. She said the bill would allow specified providers to bill Medicaid using collaborative-care codes, establish a reimbursement rate and provide minimal start-up funding.
Multiple clinicians and health-system representatives testified in favor. Frank Chadwick, a clinical social worker at Hennepin Healthcare, said collaborative care is "an innovative care model" supported by randomized trials…
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