Medicaid Service Use and Cost of Care for Children with Mental Health Disorders

Publication Date: 4/1/2004

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Medicaid has contributed enormously to expanding access to mental health care for the nation's low-income children. Although not specifi cally designed to serve children, nationally more than half of all Medicaid benefi ciaries are children and more than one-fi fth of all children in the United States are covered by Medicaid (Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured 1999). Th is report examines both physical and mental health service use and costs of care in FY02-03 for Florida's Medicaid enrolled children (ages 0-18) with a diagnosed mental disorder.