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Suit: Colorado youths with MH needs have little access to community care
Author(s) -
Enos Gary
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
mental health weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7583
pISSN - 1058-1103
DOI - 10.1002/mhw.32948
Subject(s) - medicaid , lawsuit , complaint , mental health , medicine , service (business) , state (computer science) , family medicine , health care , psychiatry , business , law , political science , algorithm , marketing , computer science
Many Medicaid‐eligible children with behavioral health disorders languish in Colorado hospital settings because of the state's failure to offer timely and appropriate services in the home and community, according to the complaint in a federal lawsuit filed against the state this month. Moreover, the state's treatment of Medicaid‐eligible children is disproportionately worse than how children with developmental disabilities and non‐Medicaid children with mental health needs fare in their service systems, the lawsuit alleges.