The Rochester City School District could be missing out on more than $2 million in potential Medicaid reimbursements from last school year due to missing paperwork, according to a district administrator.
The district is missing about 1,000 parental consent forms it must have to determine whether the needed services for a student with disabilities are eligible for Medicaid reimbursement. Those services include things like speech therapy, special transportation and physical therapy that are part of a student’s Individualized Education Program, or IEP.
“All my colleagues in the rest of the big five school districts are struggling just like us,” Medicaid Compliance Officer Mike Sausa said in a recent school board meeting…