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San Francisco supervisors hear plan to reclaim Medi‑Cal funds for children’s mental‑health services
Summary
Supervisors and city staff on March 25 heard presentations outlining steps to increase Medi‑Cal reimbursements for children’s behavioral‑health services, including time‑tracking at family resource centers and contract adjustments that analysts estimate could recover millions annually.
Supervisor Myrna Melgar convened a March 25 hearing of the Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee to examine how San Francisco can maximize state and federal Medi‑Cal funding for children’s mental‑health services.
Alex Briscoe, principal of the California Children’s Trust, told the committee that the trust and city partners identified four projects — family resource centers, a children’s health‑center billing benefit, expanded school district claiming and administrative‑activity claims — that together could generate additional federal revenue for local programs. Briscoe said 26 family resource centers will begin time tracking April 1 and that initial work already identified more than $15 million of local, non‑federal spending the city can use to draw…
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