Advancing Student Health and Achievement Through Medicaid: Lessons Learned from State Efforts to Expand Medicaid-Funded School Health Services

摘要

BACKGROUND School health services improve health and academic outcomes; however, sustainable funding for these services is an ongoing struggle. In December 2014, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services clarified how Medicaid will reimburse school health services. School districts, once restricted to reimbursement for services delivered under specific conditions, can now receive Medicaid reimbursement for eligible services delivered to all Medicaid-enrolled students.