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• Iowa Medicaid: Opportunities to Support the Healthy Mental Development of Iowa's Young Children
  Iowa ABCD Project. (2006). This report from the clinical workgroup of the Healthy Mental Development Panel I to the Iowa EPSDT Interagency Collaborative Board outlines recommendations to improve the healthy mental development of young children.
  App. 7 Med Opp Ex Summ..doc

• Medicaid Barriers to Implementation of the Three Level Identification System
  Iowa's ABCD Project. (2005). This resource is a draft version of the guiding principles, recommmendations, and billing codes for Levels 1-3 of developmental and behavioral suveillance.
  Appendix 3 - MEDICAID BARRIERS- 6.doc

• 2007 Families and Children Final Contract
  Minnesota Department of Human Services (November 29, 2006) This resource details how Minnesota improved its managed care contracts to include financial incentives to providers for using standardized developmental and mental health screenings tools—see Section 7.10.6 for further details
  http://www.dhs.state.mn.us/main/groups/healthcare/documents/pub/dhs_id_054907.pdf

• Flowchart for the use of the Edinburgh screening tool
  Joe Cramer (Utah ABCD Project, 2006) This flowchart details the appropriate process for implementation of the Edinburgh screening tool within a well-child visit.
  Joe Cramer presentation slide.ppt

• Child Health Evaluation and Care (CHEC) Medicaid Provider Manual Maternal Depression Screening Update
  Utah ABCD Project (Utah Medicaid, July 2006) This resource is a page in the Utah CHEC Medicaid provider manual that was updated to reflect policy improvements related to Maternal Depression Screening.
  UPIQ Maternal Depresson Screening Dept of Health CHEC manual.doc

• State of Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services Contract for Furnishing Health Services by a Managed Care Organization
  This resource outlines policy improvements made during the ABCD project to Managed Care Contracts in Illinois. Please see highlighted sections of contract for specific improvements requiring use of standardized developmental and social emotional screening during EPSDT visits, risk assessment or perinatal depression screening during maternity care, as well as related quality improvement and performance payment projects.
  Illinois Managed Care Contract 2006.pdf