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Senate Taxes Committee advances bill to raise outpatient mental-health Medicaid rates using health-plan assessment
Summary
Senate File 1402, a bill to increase Medicaid reimbursement for outpatient mental-health and clinic-based pediatric services and to finance the increases through an assessment on managed-care organizations, was passed without recommendation and referred to the Senate Committee on Health and Human Services on April 1.
Senate File 1402, a bill to increase Medicaid reimbursement for outpatient mental-health and clinic-based pediatric services and to finance the increases through an assessment on managed-care organizations, was passed without recommendation and referred to the Senate Committee on Health and Human Services on April 1.
Senator Wicklund presented the bill as an effort to implement a 2024 Department of Human Services (DHS) rate study and to address what he described as “a crisis of children boarding in emergency rooms, detention facilities, and within counties” and widespread staffing shortages in outpatient care. "This bill implements that rate study and uses a health plan…
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