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East Stroudsburg staff recommend Cartwheel telehealth contract to expand student mental-health access
Summary
District staff recommended contracting with Cartwheel, a telehealth provider, to expand mental-health services for students; the district would pay an annual oversight/case-management fee while families’ insurance would be billed for treatment; partial funding would come from a PCCD grant.
The EPR Committee of the East Stroudsburg Area School District heard a staff recommendation June 5 to contract with Cartwheel, a telehealth mental-health vendor, to expand access to counseling and psychiatric services for students across the district.
District staff said the contract would include a roughly $65,000 annual fee to cover case management and platform oversight; clinical services would be billed to students’ family insurance plans, and Medicaid would be accepted without co-pays for eligible families. Staff told the committee Cartwheel can serve about 100–150 students under the quote they reviewed, provides family…
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