Posted on December 23, 2010 09:49
Categories: State and Local | Medicaid | Special Populations
Topics: Children & Adolescents | Health Care Reform | Medicaid | Mental Health | State Data
This kit from the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law provides states with Medicaid service definitions that can be used when providing community-based mental health services to children. Such definitions are required for reimbursement at the federal level. This also includes an updated on the coverage of child mental health services under Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act.
From the executive summary:
Documents in the folder explain the Medicaid definitions of key rehabilitation services for children with serious mental or emotional disorders, which the law requires states to provide when needed by Medicaid-eligible children. Along with an overview of the federal mandate and a discussion of the issues involved in funding child mental health services through Medicaid, the kit includes issue briefs on:
- behavioral therapeutic aides,
- intensive at-home services,
- child respite care,
- after-school programs,
- therapeutic summer camps, and
- therapeutic nurseries and preschools.
A three-page update explains the changes in Medicaid coverage of child mental health services under the 2010 health reform law.
Full Kit: Covering Intensive Community-Based Child Mental Health Services Under Medicaid 
Bazelon. (2010). Covering intensive community-based child mental health servicees under Medicaid.
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