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Special services director reports Medicaid billing gains, higher regular diplomas and new paraprofessional training
Summary
The district reported roughly $700,000 in reimbursable special-services deliveries and a year-over-year increase in regular diplomas for special-education students, while outlining steps to improve Medicaid consent rates, implement a paraprofessional onboarding program and host a special-education conference April 26.
Elko County School District Special Services Director Dr. Higbee told the board the district has delivered more than $700,000 in Medicaid-billable services this school year and is increasing collections by improving documentation and parent consent rates.
Dr. Higbee said speech therapy accounted for about $146,000 of the billed services, nursing about $18,000, occupational therapy $20,000 and physical therapy $16,000; he cautioned that those figures reflect recouped Medicaid billings rather than total program budgets. He said the district expects to be roughly 19% higher in Medicaid reimbursements year to date compared with the…
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