Healthcare Finance News January 26, 2024
Twenty states will receive $2.5 million to expand school-based health services through Medicaid and CHIP.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, through the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, will be doling out $50 million in grants for states to connect millions more children to healthcare services, particularly for mental health, at school.
Drawing from investments in the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (BSCA), the grants will provide 20 states up to $2.5 million each in funding that can help states implement and expand the use of school-based health services through Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program.
“Providing quality, affordable healthcare requires meeting people where they’re at, and for children that often means school,” said HHS Secretary Xavier...
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