Community Health, Department of; submit a waiver request to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to authorize the qualification of certain caregivers for Medicaid reimbursement

Summary

The bill orders the Department of Community Health to ask the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for a waiver that would allow caregivers of Medicaid‑eligible children under 21 with serious behavioral health issues to be paid for respite and related services. If the waiver is granted, the state must set up Medicaid payments for those services, helping keep children in family‑like settings instead of institutional placement.

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