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HHS pitches coordinated early‑intervention package to reduce costs for 'high utilizers'
Summary
Health and Human Services staff proposed a coordinated package of prevention and diversion strategies for a small group of residents who use a disproportionate share of care, citing jail social work, mental‑health corresponders, peer support and opioid‑settlement funding as current tools.
An HHS presenter asked the St. Croix County Health and Human Services Board on April 16 to consider a more coherent, countywide package of early‑intervention services aimed at people described in the meeting as "high utilizers" of health care and crisis services.
"If we can enroll someone in Medicaid, obviously, that allows them the opportunity then to get behavioral health services," the presenter said, framing insurance enrollment and early outreach as central to preventing higher‑cost hospital or…
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