EPSDT webinar recordings and materials:
- Webinar recording and slides: EPSDT Education for Providers and Advocates.
- Webinar recording and slides: Medical Necessity and EPSDT: Tools for Providers and Advocates
- AAP State EPSDT Profiles, which provide insight and detailed information about each Medicaid program’s EPSDT benefit and how it aligns with the Bright Futures 4th Edition and the AAP/Bright Futures Periodicity Schedule of preventive visits and screenings. The profiles also provide information on your state’s definition of medical necessity for EPSDT, promising practices related preventive care, as well as how the state performs on its selected Child Core Set measures.
- AAP’s “Using Your State EPSDT Profile” guidance to help brainstorm ways the EPSDT profiles can be useful in identifying and addressing state-specific issues.
Updated State Medicaid Fact Sheets
An updated collection of state Medicaid fact sheets from the Kaiser Family Foundation summarizes Medicaid coverage and spending nationally and in each state. A related issue brief highlights key Medicaid issues to watch in the elections, including Medicaid expansion ballot initiatives in three states. Also available is a State Health Facts database with state-level data about Medicaid spending, enrollment, eligibility levels and more.
Medicaid Coverage of Inpatient Psychiatric Treatment for Individuals Under 21 (4-page fact sheet, National Health Law Program, 9/21/18).
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