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Partner Event: Virtual Town Hall on New Medicaid EPSDT Guidance
Join leaders from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the Children’s Hospital Association (CHA), and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) for a virtual town hall event on Monday, November 18 at 5 PM ET, with Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) leaders to discuss new federal guidance about how Medicaid’s Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment (EPSDT) requirement can meet the unique needs of children. The new federal guidance will help ensure that children enrolled in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) have better access to comprehensive health care services.
With nearly half of all children in the U.S. enrolled in Medicaid or CHIP, the programs play a vital role in promoting child health. EPSDT is designed to ensure that children and youth can access the health care they need, when they need it, in the most appropriate setting. However, variability in state implementation of Medicaid’s EPSDT requirements has meant that children aren’t always receiving the care and services they need.
In this one-hour virtual event, Dan Tsai, Deputy Administrator and Director of the Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services, and Kate Ginnis, Senior Policy Advisor for Children and Youth, will join leaders from AAP, CHA, and AACAP to give an overview of the guidance and for a question-and-answer session.
Attend this Zoom virtual town tall to learn more about the new guidance on Medicaid’s EPSDT requirement and how pediatricians, child and adolescent psychiatrists, and other child health providers and organizations can ensure children have timely access to needed care.
You can submit questions in advance on the registration page. If you have any questions about this town hall, please contact kids1st@aap.org.
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