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Schools and therapists push bill to return Medicaid dollars directly to districts for school-based care
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Advocates, school districts and therapy associations urged passage of S862 to require MassHealth reimbursements for school-based, medically necessary services to be returned to school districts rather than absorbed at the municipal level, arguing it would sustain school mental-health and therapy services.
BOSTON — Educators, school mental-health leaders and therapists told the Joint Committee on Health Care Financing that Massachusetts should change how school-based Medicaid dollars are distributed so funds generated by billing are returned directly to districts to sustain mental-health and medically necessary services.
“Up to 80 percent of children and adolescents who receive mental health care do so in a school setting,” said Kelly English of the Children’s Mental Health Campaign. She and Methuen Public Schools’ John Crocker…
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