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School advocates back bill to return school‑based Medicaid dollars directly to school health budgets
Summary
Education and therapy providers urged the Joint Committee on Healthcare Financing to pass S.862 to ensure Medicaid reimbursements for school‑based medically necessary services are returned directly to school health budgets rather than absorbed by municipalities, arguing doing so would expand school mental and physical health services.
Advocates for school‑based health services and therapy providers testified July 4 in support of S.862, a bill that would direct Medicaid reimbursement for medically necessary school services back to school budgets so districts can staff and sustain school‑based health and mental‑health programs.
Why the bill: witnesses said school-based delivery is where most children get mental-health and therapeutic care and that current reimbursement practice — where Medicaid funds flow to…
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