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It’s Here! Medi-Cal Coverage for Autism Treatment

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Medicaid for Autism Treatment: It’s Here! In January 2014, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, CMS , said that people under 21 must get Medicaid for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) treatment. Managed by the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS), Medi-Cal is California’s Medicaid program , which in the same year started providing essential behavioral health treatment (BHT) for autism, including applied behavior analysis or ABA therapy for enrolled children, when the trea