National Assembly
ON SCHOOL-BASED HEALTH CARE
DEAR MEDICAID DIRECTOR:
Are school-based health centers a partner to
your state’s efforts to improve access to health and mental health care for
hard-to-reach and poorly served school-aged children? The enclosed document, Partners in Access: School-Based
With an emphatic approach to delivering
preventive and early intervention services, SBHCs provide Medicaid enrollees
with routine screenings, assessments, and physical examinations, as well as
treatment of acute and chronic conditions.
School-based health centers have documented well their ability to
increase access for a population that often foregoes preventive health
care. Considering the behavioral-related
health threats to school-aged youth, SBHCs provide health counseling and
promotion to identify and reduce risk-taking behaviors. Reimbursement for services provided to SBHC
users who are Medicaid enrollees is critical to the continued viability of
these health centers in schools.
I hope you find the information useful. If your state is not referenced in this
document and has made strides in partnering with school-based health centers in
your state, please let me know. The National
Assembly would be pleased to highlight your state’s activity on its web-based
version of this report.
Sincerely,
John
J. Schlitt
Executive
Director