Connecticut Releases Plan To Create Parity For Insured & Uninsured Children’s Behavioral Health

The Connecticut Department of Children and Families (DCF) is making changes to create parity in access to behavioral health services for insured and uninsured children. The changes affect the state Medicaid plan, as well as state-funded behavioral health services through other systems.  The Medicaid changes include creation of an array of Medicaid services with a preference for service delivery in natural environments, age-appropriate periodic standardized screening for developmental and behavioral health concerns, broadly accessible care coordination services, as well as in-home and respite services.  The state funded service changes include expansion of emergency mobile psychiatric services.

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