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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Sacramento and Solano counties are in a standoff with the state over mental health coverage for a portion of Medicaid patients in those counties — a dispute
Sacramento and Solano counties are in a standoff with the state over mental health coverage for a portion of Medicaid ...
The state wants to stop paying Kaiser Permanente for treating severely mentally ill Medi-Cal patients in Sacramento and Solano counties and force the counties to take on the task. The counties’ leaders say they can't afford it.
Sacramento and Solano counties are in a standoff with the state over mental health coverage for a portion of Medicaid patients in those counties — a dispute that threatens to disrupt care for nearly 50,000 low-income residents receiving treatment for severe mental illness.
The new approach, perhaps unique in California, calls for outreach teams, including mental health professionals, to visit Sacramento’s largest homeless encampments. They would diagnose unhoused residents in-the-field, refer them to treatment and more