OhioRise, a Medicaid program managed by Aetna, has helped more than 8,000 children and their families coordinate behavioral healthcare in the program's first two months, The Columbus Dispatch reported Aug. 31.
"Prior to OhioRISE, kids would get care coordination only when they were at the point that they were going to be sent into placement or into residential care," Hattie Tracy, CEO of Ohio behavioral health system Coleman Health Services, told the Dispatch. "Now, we have the ability to intervene much earlier on."
The program provides short- and long-term care assistance and access to in-state psychiatric hospitals.
The program is expected to help more than 50,000 children and families covered by Medicaid by the end of its first year, according to the publication report.