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Children and Youth with Significant Behavioral Health Needs Will Benefit from New Legal Settlements by States Committing to Provide Intensive Home and Community Based Services
Children and youth with serious behavioral health conditions are too often placed in psychiatric residential treatment facilities and psychiatric hospitals due to their challenging behaviors and complex needs. They are also often involved in multiple child-serving systems, such as the child welfare, juvenile justice and special education systems. Medicaid covers 4 in 10 children and…
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California’s Mandate to Treat Children on Medi-Cal Is Now a Little Clearer
The Medicaid Act, the federal law governing California’s Medi-Cal Program, has long contained specific benefit requirements for covering children and youth under the age of 21 through the Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic and Treatment – or “EPSDT” – services mandate. Despite its unmemorable name, this federal mandate critically identifies that children and adolescents are…