While the guidance applies to physical and mental health, the Biden administration is emphasizing how much this could help children's mental health
along with several other associations declared the state of child and adolescent mental health a national emergency.
"It's really giving that assurance that yes, from our perspective, schools should be and can get funding through the Medicaid program to deliver mental health services as well as other services to kids," Brooks-LaSure said. "I think this addresses a number of questions and concerns and issues that will go a long way to give states and school districts the confidence to move forward," said Rochelle Davis, the president and CEO of the Health Schools Campaign, a national nonprofit that works with schools to ensure all kids have access to healthy school environments.
"Expanded Medicaid funding for school health services is good for students. It's good for school and it's good for public health," Davis added. , a pediatrician who serves as the chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics council on Healthy MentalEarls has seen what removing that administrative barriers can do in her own state of North Carolina. She worked closely with the state's Medicaid director to eliminate the same administrative barrier and it improved kids' access to care almost immediately.
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