Medicaid Cuts Stall Sad 53's Student Counseling Program

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PITTSFIELD - Under the state's school consolidation program, one of the goals handed to newly formed districts is not to just trim budgets, but to find additional revenue sources.

However, when SAD 53 created a day treatment program, which would be funded through a U.S. Department of Education grant and bring in new money by billing Medicaid patients for professional counseling, it was shot down before it could be tried.

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Medicaid Cuts Stall Sad 53's Student Counseling Program

"This is so frustrating," SAD 53 Superintendent Michael Gallagher said this week after the SAD 53 board tabled action on the grant because state Medicaid pa...

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