Researchers from Harvard University Provide Details of New Studies and Findings in the Area of Managed Care (Improving Governance To Reduce Administrative Burden and Increase Funding for School-based Health Services): Managed Care

2026 AUG 17 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Current study results on Managed Care have been published. According to news originating from Cambridge, Massachusetts, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “Public schools are critical sites to address children’s emergent health needs, yet they face ongoing challenges to finance and sustain health initiatives. Medicaid is an important funding source for school-based health services, accounting for over $8 billion in revenue for school-based health services in 2024 (Furtado et al., ), but it is underutilized.”

Funders for this research include NIH National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Institute of Education Sciences (IES).

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from Harvard University, “Drawing on interviews with state Medicaid and local educational agency personnel, this study illuminates administrative burdens in school Medicaid billing and the collaborative governance arrangements developed among states, localities, and third-party organizations to ease burdens. We find that cooperation between educational service agencies and school districts increased billing capacity and shifted administrative burdens up to higher-level educational units better equipped to manage them.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “Adopting collaborative governance models that leverage the comparative strengths and scaling capacities of public and private organizations may lessen administrative burdens and increase school Medicaid billing, although low Medicaid reimbursement remains a significant disincentive.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Improving Governance To Reduce Administrative Burden and Increase Funding for School-based Health Services. Public Performance & Management Review, 2026. Public Performance & Management Review can be contacted at: Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2-4 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon OX14 4RN, Oxon, England.

The news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained from Caroline H. Kelly, Harvard University, Dept. of Health Care Policy, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1080/15309576.2026.2699897. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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