The Medicaid Act includes provisions designed to ensure quality care and services for more than 30 million children, including medical, vision, hearing, and dental screenings and necessary treatment services under the Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment (EPSDT) requirements. EPSDT is essential to providing children ongoing preventive care and the services they need to correct or ameliorate their conditions. NHeLP is a national leader in protecting the rights of children and adolescents to receive these important services.
Our Services Practice Area educates and works closely with advocates, policymakers, and other stakeholders to advance and enforce federal and state policies that maintain and expand the availability of health services and supports that are necessary for children, adolescents, and young adults to thrive irrespective of whether Medicaid covers those benefits for adults. This includes ensuring that children have access to: key preventive services, such as lead testing, vaccination, and periodic physical and behavioral health screenings; treatment when needed to correct or ameliorate a physical or behavioral health condition; and coordination and provision of services that create and maintain healthy conditions for children and adolescents.
