Connecting Medicaid with Child Welfare Systems to Improve Family Outcomes

This discussion examines how Medicaid managed care organizations can better coordinate with child welfare, behavioral health, and other family-serving systems to improve outcomes for children and families—Medicaid's largest user population. The conversation addresses common barriers like agency silos, policy volatility, and capacity constraints that prevent effective cross-system collaboration. For MCO compliance teams and state Medicaid directors, this speaks to growing expectations around care coordination and whole-family approaches in managed care contracting and operations.

Behavioral Health · Managed Care · CHIP

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