RHTP Funds May Drive Rural School-Based Health Expansion, Creating New MCO Partnership Opportunities

The $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program is enabling states to scale school-based health care in rural areas, with particular emphasis on behavioral health access. While school-based health isn't new, RHTP's flexibility allows states to fund workforce, telehealth infrastructure, and sustainable care delivery models that could create new partnership and network adequacy opportunities for Medicaid managed care organizations serving rural populations. The analysis suggests successful models will require partnerships between schools and health care organizations with clinical and administrative capacity—roles MCOs may be positioned to fill.

Behavioral Health · Managed Care

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