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Key Personnel:
Diane Haynes, M.S.
David Th ornton, M.A.


Children's Diagnoses Over a Four Year Period


Publication Date: 11/1/2003

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Description:

In Florida, children who receive Medicaid funded Mental Health services must meet either poverty, disability or other criteria related to out-of-home placement. Each of these groups is at high risk for poor behavioral health status and outcomes. Th is report examines patterns of diagnosis for children within the Medicaid system in Florida over a 4-year period (July 1, 1998 through June 30, 2002).