Texas wants to expand mental health services, but many mental health providers do not accept Medicaid because of its lower payment rate.
which would require Texas Health and Human Services to prepare a report on provider reimbursement rates, supplemental payment amounts paid to providers and access to care under Medicaid. The report would also include proposed alternative reimbursement and supplemental payment amounts.
Her bill was referred to the House Human Services Committee in early March, and no progress has been made since.which would allow providers who are licensed practitioners with a master’s degree to bill the Medicaid program while they pursue a clinical license. Mares, with the social worker’s association, supports the measure.
“We’re creating an incentive structure essentially because one of the issues we have heard is ‘if I am a licensed master’s level social worker wanting to pursue my clinical license, it’s going to cost me on average from $3,000 to $5,000 to pay for the supervision over the course of 24 to 60 months,’” Mares said.
For nonprofit professionals like Knudsen, the San Antonio Clarity Child Guidance Center CEO, mental health care is something that should be available to all Texans and for that to be possible, changes will eventually need to come to Medicaid reimbursement rate.
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