Healthy Schools Campaign Hosts Free Webinar on School Medicaid Opportunities

Date: September 24, 2019 Time: 1PM - 2PM, CDT About the Webinar This introductory webinar will explore the following questions: - What is Medicaid and what does it cover—in and out of school? - How can school districts leverage Medicaid to enhance school health services? - What is the free care policy reversal and how are states leveraging this opportunity to expand their school-based…

Healthy Schools Campaign Hosting Webinar on Free Care

**This post has been updated to include a link to the webinar recording** Date: Wednesday, February 28, 2018 Time: 11am-12pm PST Register: Closed About the event: The change in the free care policy presents an important opportunity to increase access to and resources for school health services. While the December 2014 State Medicaid Director letter clarified that school…

Help the California School-Based Health Alliance Set Their 2018 Policy Priorities

The California School-Based Health Alliance (CSHA), a statewide nonprofit which aims to improve health and academic success of children and youth by advancing health services in schools, is setting their policy priorities for 2018 and inviting CSHA members to provide feedback during a call on September 20, 2017. Over the past several years, CSHA has worked to advance several issues impacting…

RMTS for LEA Billing — Implementation Advisory Group Publishes August Meeting Summary

The Implementation Advisory Group (IAG) has published minutes from their August 1, 2017 meeting. Of interest: DHCS gave a brief update on SPA 15-021, noting that on June 9th CMS asked several additional Requests for Information (RAIs). The Department noted that the RAI responses are undergoing final management review before they will be submitted to CMS. In addition, the LEA RMTS…

LEA Ad-Hoc Advisory Workgroup Publishes June 2017 Meeting Minutes

The LEA Ad-Hoc Advisory Workgroup, comprised of LEA representatives, DHCS, and the California Department of Education (CDE), held their regularly scheduled meeting to make recommendations and discuss issues impacting the LEA Medi-Cal Billing Option Program. Highlights from the June 7, 2017 meeting include: In April 2017, DHCS posted the finalized Annual Accounting of Funds Summary Report…

RMTS for LEA Billing — Implementation Advisory Group Publishes January Meeting Summary

The Implementation Advisory Group (IAG) has published minutes from their January 31, 2017 meeting, and discussed the following topics: DHCS presented a draft chart that identified LEA services that are proposed under SPA 15-021. The chart covered IEP/IFSP services, non-IEP services covered under “plans of care” and other non-IEP services that are outside of a plan of care (e.g., first aid…

DHCS Publishes New LEA Billing FAQs

As a follow-up from the Fall 2016 LEA Billing DHCS training held last October, DHCS has released a list of frequently asked questions (FAQs) and answers on various program policies. Below, we've included a handful of questions and answers from the document that LEAs may find particularly interesting, specifically regarding: RMTS for LEA Billing Free Care (Non-IEP) Service Billing…

Medicaid’s Free Care Practice

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How California Schools Are Using Medicaid – Healthy Schools Campaign

Since a regulatory change to the free care rule almost two years ago allowed states to use Medicaid funding to provide services to all Medicaid-enrolled students in schools, states have been exploring the best way to implement this change. To take advantage of this opportunity, states, school districts and others need to come together to develop a plan and consider their options for…

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