Massachusetts Selects Provider Organizations For Medicaid HCBS For Child Behavioral Health

Massachusetts announced 36 community service agency awards for providing home- and community-based services (HCBS) for children who are MassHealth members—nearly half of all children in Massachusetts—with behavioral, emotional, and mental health needs. This will be the first expansion of the provider network in over a decade, and it will offer more options for families, increase access to high-quality behavioral health services, and ensure geographic coverage, including for families seeking specialized cultural and linguistic care, the announcement stated. Nearly one in five children ages three to seventeen has at some point been diagnosed with a mental, emotional . . .