TA FAQs (frequently asked questions): Medicaid and Managed Care for School Based Mental Health

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TOPIC: Medicaid and Managed Care for School Based Mental Health

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Center Developed Documents, Resources and Tools

Center Brief and Fact Sheet

Financing Mental Health for Children & Adolescents

Introductory Packet

Financial Strategies to Aid in Addressing Barriers to Learning

Other Relevant Documents, Resources, and Tools on the Internet

Finance, Statistics

Billing Medicaid for School-Based Services

Medicaid for school-based services

Medicaid in Schools: Poor oversight and improper payments compromise potential benefit (U.S. GAO)

Medicaid Coverage of School-Based Mental Health Services

Strategies for Maximizing Medicaid to Fund Children's Mental Health Services

General

Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment Services: Knowledge Path

Health Insurance and Access to Care for Children and Adolescents: Knowledge Path

Medicaid in the Schools

Medicaid and Schools

Access to children's mental health services under Medicaid and SCHIP (2004)

School-Based Medicaid

Medicaid-in-Education

School-Based Medicaid Claiming

Towards Better Behavioral Health for Children, Youth and their Families

Center for Managed Care

Children's Health Under Medicaid: A National Review of Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment

Special Provision for Youth with Serious and Complex Behavioral Health Needs in Managed Care Systems

Programs, Guides

Assuring the Health of Adolescents in Managed care

Medicaid Certified School Match Program (Florida)

"Medicaid School- Based Administrative Claiming Guide" Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

Policy Brief: Care Coordination and Medicaid Managed Care: Emerging Issues for States and Managed Care Organizations.

Promising approaches for behavioral health service to children and adolescent and their families in managed care systems (2003)

"Toward a Healthy Future: Medicaid Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic and Treatment Services for Poor Children and Youth" (2004) National Health Law Program.

Forum Guide to Protecting the Privacy of Student Information

New Mexico Medicaid Guide for School-Based Services

Studies and Reports

Children in Foster Care: Challenges in Meeting their health Care Needs through Medicaid

Executive Summary: Mandatory Managed Care: Children's Access to Medicaid Mental Health Services.

Mental Health Care Quality under Managed Care in the United States.

Policy Report: School-Based Mental Health Services Under Medicaid Managed Care.

Special Report: Preventive Interventions Under Managed Care: Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services.

State approaches to promoting young children's healthy mental development: A survey of medicaid, and meaternal and child health, and mental health

A Study of Medicaid-Funded School-Based Behavioral Health Services (The Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute)

Related Agencies and Websites

American Managed Behavioral Healthcare Association

Center for Managed Care (HRSA)

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (DHHS)

Relevant Publications That Can Be Obtained Through Libraries

Children's mental health: Facts for policymakers. (2006). Masi, R,& Cooper, J. New York, NY: National Center for Children in Poverty, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University.
Chilren's mental health services in fee-for-service Medicaid. (2004) Larson, M., Miller, C., Sharma, S., & Manderscheid, R. Health Care Financing Review
The impact of managed care on systems of care that serve children with serious emotional disturbances and their families. (2002). Stroul, B., Pires, S., Armstrong, M., & Zaro, S. Children's Services: Social Policy, Research and Practice, 5(1), 21-36.
Medicaid Spending on foster children. (2005). Geen, R., Sommers, A., & Cohen, M. Washington, DC: The Urban Institute.
National spending on mental health and substance abuse treatment by age of clients. (1997). Harwood, H., Mark, T., McKusick, D., Coffey, R., King, E., & Genuardi, J. The Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research, 30, 433-443.
School-based mental health services under Medicaid managed care: Policy report (DHHS Publication No. [SMA] 00-3456). (2000). Robinson, G.K., Barrett, M., Tunkelrott, T., & Kim, J. Rockville, MD: Center for Mental Heath Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

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