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Stearns County approved planning for Medicaid reentry (1115) waiver to expand jail-based behavioral-health services
Summary
The board approved pursuing a Minnesota DHS capacity-building planning grant for an 1115 reentry waiver that would prepare the county to allow Medicaid-covered services for people in the jail and for about 60 days around release; staff said implementation would target substance-use and mental-health services and aim to reduce recidivism.
Stearns County commissioners approved Feb. 17 a capacity-building planning grant and the county’s participation in work preparing for an 1115 reentry waiver demonstration project administered by Minnesota Department of Human Services.
Lieutenant Keltner and Julie Ellis, director of adult disability services, explained the…
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