California Welfare and Institutions Code

§ 5961.4

WIC § 5961.4 Effective Sep 17, 2025Div. 5 · Part 7 · Ch. 2

Statute text

(a)As a component of the initiative, the State Department of Health Care Services shall develop and maintain a school-linked statewide fee schedule for outpatient mental health or substance use disorder treatment provided to a student 25 years of age or younger at a schoolsite.

(b)The department shall develop and maintain a school-linked statewide provider network of schoolsite behavioral health counselors.

(c)(1) Commencing January 1, 2024, and subject to subdivision (h), each Medi-Cal managed care plan and Medi-Cal behavioral health delivery system, as applicable, shall reimburse providers of medically necessary outpatient mental health or substance use disorder treatment provided at a schoolsite to a student 25 years of age or younger who is an enrollee of the plan or delivery system, in accordance with paragraph (2), but only to the extent the Medi-Cal managed care plan or Medi-Cal behavioral delivery system is financially responsible for those schoolsite services under its approved managed care contract with the department.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2025, Ch. 105, Sec. 49. (AB 144) Effective September 17, 2025.