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Medicaid covers play therapy if clinically documented, AHS official tells committee
Summary
At a House Human Services Committee meeting reviewing H-58, an act relating to Medicaid coverage for play therapy, Ashley Berliner, director of Medicaid policy for the Agency of Human Services, told lawmakers that play therapy is covered only when it is clinically indicated and documented as part of psychotherapy.
At a House Human Services Committee meeting reviewing H-58, an act relating to Medicaid coverage for play therapy, Ashley Berliner, director of Medicaid policy for the Agency of Human Services, told lawmakers that play therapy is covered only when it is clinically indicated and documented as part of psychotherapy.
"Medicaid does cover play therapy. It's covered as a modality within the broader psychotherapy coverage, and it has to be therapeutically indicated," Berliner said. She explained that session notes must document how the play therapy approach advances the member's treatment goals and must tie to a dated treatment plan.
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