Beyond the Screening: Treatment Services under the Medicaid Benefit for Children and Adolescents

State Medicaid programs offer a variety of treatment services to meet the needs of children with physical and behavioral health conditions. Under federal law, Medicaid programs must cover services for children, as long as the treatments are necessary to correct or ameliorate the child’s condition, even if the services are not covered for adults. This NASHP webinar provides a federal perspective from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on how states can leverage the Medicaid benefit for children and adolescents (also known as EPSDT) to meet the treatment needs of children. This is followed by a conversation with presenters from Colorado and Washington about treatment services under the EPSDT benefit and their processes for determining service coverage.
This webinar is the fourth in a series on the Medicaid benefit for children and adolescents: the final webinar in the series will focus on care coordination services for children. In conjunction with this webinar series, NASHP launched a Resource Map to disseminate state-specific resources and information about strategies that state policymakers and Medicaid officials can use to deliver the Medicaid benefit for children and adolescents.

Speakers:

• Laurie Norris, Senior Policy Adviser, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
• Gail Kreiger, Section Manager, Washington Health Care Authority
• Gina Robinson, Program Administrator, Colorado Department of Healthcare Policy and Financing