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Senate advances substitute to allow Medicaid, private insurance payments for school-based clinical mental-health services

Utah Senate · February 15, 2019
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Summary

First substitute SB106 would authorize plan amendments enabling Medicaid reimbursement and permit private insurance billing for licensed clinicians providing clinical mental-health services in schools; sponsors said it adds guardrails for claims and does not change parental-consent code.

Senator Fillmore introduced first substitute Senate Bill 106 to enable reimbursement for clinical mental-health services provided to students through Medicaid and, in some cases, private insurance. The sponsor described the change as adding mental‑health services to existing school reimbursement frameworks used for…

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