Medicaid provides quality health coverage for 31 million children, including essential medical, vision, hearing and dental screenings and services under the Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic and Treatment (EPSDT) services. EPSDT services are essential to providing children the routine and preventive care they need to grow into healthy adults. Please check out these new resources for advocates to help ensure that children receive the health screenings and treatment services they need to thrive. NHeLP's website now features an interactive map -- State EPSDT Information -- providing direct links to the Medicaid agencies' EPSDT divisions in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The Georgetown Center for Children and Families' State Snapshots of Children's Coverage provides state-by-state fact sheets on children's health coverage through Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and the Affordable Care Act (ACA). T
Family Voices Indiana is a family-led organization that provides information, education, training, outreach, and peer support to families of children and youth with special health care needs and the professionals who serve them.