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Education Briefs for July 25

Ritter receives Outstanding Service Award

On July 12, Martha Ritter was presented with the 2018 Outstanding Service Award for SWWC. The award was presented at the Minnesota Service Cooperatives Annual Conference July 11-13 at Cragun’s Resort in Brainerd.

Ritter began working at SWWC in 2001 and retired this past March. During her 17 years, her impact on programming for our members is evident by the growth of our third party billing services. Beginning July 2000, Minnesota public schools were required by statute to seek reimbursement from insurers and similar third parties for the costs provided by the district whenever the services were otherwise covered by the child’s health coverage. SWWC worked with the Minnesota Department of Education and the Minnesota Department of Human Services to formulate a program to address third party billing. Ritter was involved in building these services from the ground up.

Over the years, Ritter served on the MDE’s State Advisory Committee on third party billing and was a member and presenter for N.A.M.E. (National Alliance of Medicaid in Education). She initially provided support to schools in the Montevideo area, but eventually expanded to support all schools in the SWWC 18-county region necessitating the need for a second third party billing assistant.

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