Keeping Medicaid’s Promise for Children With Special Healthcare Needs

Learn how to improve access, services and care for Medicaid-enrolled children with special healthcare needs during 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.

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 behavioural 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 during 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 feature a suite of actions states can implement and sustain overtime 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, click here to register free now and you’ll receive a link to view the webinar on-demand.

Presenters
Cindy Mann, Partner, Manatt Health
Kinda Serafi, Partner, Manatt Health
Jen Eder, Manager, Manatt Health
Martha Davis, Senior Program Officer, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Holly Henry, Director, Program for Children with Special Health Care Needs, Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health
Christy Blakely, President, Medical Services Board, and Chair, Children’s Disability Advisory Committee, Colorado Department of Health Care 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 http://communications.manatt.com/e/745343/ibility-services-and-spending-/mq2s/50664045?h=IL81uWDV1QZlghDWY4HaJMK1-LcpAyaPpKq5NS2fsVw (last visited on May 28, 2019).

²Social Security Act § 1905(r); 42 U.S.C. § 1396d.

³Dennis Z. Kuo, et al., Health Affairs, Inequities In Health Care Needs For Children With Medical Complexity (December 2014), available at http://communications.manatt.com/e/745343/full-10-1377-hlthaff-2014-0273/mq2v/50664045?h=IL81uWDV1QZlghDWY4HaJMK1-LcpAyaPpKq5NS2fsVw (last visited on May 28, 2019).

Date and Time

Wednesday,
October 2, 2019
3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. ET

RSVP

Click here to register free.

CLE

This program has been approved for 1.5 CA General MCLE credit, 1.5 NY CLE Professional Practice credit (transitional and non-transitional), and 1.5 IL General MCLE credit is pending approval.