Learn how to improve access, services and care for Medicaid-enrolled children with special healthcare needs at a new webinar from Manatt Health, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health. Click here to register free—and earn CLE.
Join us October 2 from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. ET.
Medicaid covers about half of all children with special healthcare needs in the U.S., playing a central role in addressing the complex physical and behavioral challenges of this particularly vulnerable population.1 Although federal Medicaid law requires providing all children under age 21 with comprehensive pediatric healthcare services through provisions known as Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment (EPSDT),2 children with special healthcare needs and their families face numerous challenges when seeking to access services. Almost a fifth of families of children with special healthcare needs report at least one unmet need (such as access to preventive or specialist care)—and that number increases to 44% for children who are medically complex.3
How can state Medicaid agencies, families, advocates, providers and other stakeholders partner to improve access to services for Medicaid-enrolled children with special healthcare needs? Find out at a new webinar from Manatt, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health. Click here to register free—and earn CLE. Based on a new issue brief, the webinar will share a suite of actions states can implement and sustain over time to ensure children with special healthcare needs receive the right care in the right place at the right time. Key topics include:
- A review of the complex and diverse challenges children with special healthcare needs face
- An understanding of Medicaid’s commitment to children, including an overview of EPSDT, with a detailed look at Medicaid’s unique definition of medical necessity for children
- A checklist of eight best-practice strategies state Medicaid agencies can implement to improve access to healthcare for children with special healthcare needs
- Real-world examples of innovative initiatives states are executing to enhance services, screening, communication, care coordination and monitoring for children with special healthcare needs and their families
Even if you can’t make the webinar’s original airing on October 2 from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. ET, click here to register free now, and receive a link to view the program on demand.
Presenters:
Cindy Mann, Partner, Manatt Health
Kinda Serafi, Partner, Manatt Health
Jennifer Eder, Manager, Manatt Health
Martha Davis, Senior Program Officer, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Holly Henry, Director, Program for Children with Special Healthcare Needs, Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health
Christy Blakely, President, Medical Services Board, and Chair, Children’s Disability Advisory Committee, Colorado Department of Healthcare Policy & Financing; former Executive Director, Family Voices Colorado
Laura Epperly, Care Management Specialist, Division of Integrated Care, Virginia Department of Medical Assistance Services
1 Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, Medicaid’s Role for Children with Special Health Care Needs: A Look at Eligibility, Services, and Spending (June 12, 2019), available at https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/medicaids-role-for-children-with-special-health-care-needs-a-look-at-eligibility-services-and-spending/ (last visited on May 28, 2019).
2 Social Security Act § 1905(r); 42 U.S.C. § 1396d.
3 Dennis Z. Kuo, et al., Health Affairs, Inequities in Health Care Needs for Children with Medical Complexity (December 2014), available at https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2014.0273 (last visited on May 28, 2019).