Issue Brief Argues for School-Based Integration of Medicaid Behavioral Health and Child Welfare Services

Sellers Dorsey explores how schools can function as coordination hubs connecting Medicaid-funded behavioral health services with child welfare agencies and community providers. The brief addresses fragmentation across systems serving children and proposes schools as an access point for integrating care delivery. This model has direct implications for MCO network adequacy, care coordination strategies, and how managed care plans structure pediatric behavioral health benefits and community partnerships.

Behavioral Health · Managed Care

This is outside commentary from Sellers Dorsey, not part of Medicaid Monitor's independently scored news coverage.

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