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• Announcement of new web site available for Medicaid EPSDT/Care for Kids providers
  Iowa Department of Human Services, Iowa Medicaid Enterprise (February 2006). A web site containing useful tools, resources, and links for providing EPSDT services with special emphasis on promoting healthy physical, mental, social, and emotional development of children birth through age three.
  http://www.IowaEPSDT.org

• Early Childhood Mental Health Summer Institute: Creating a Referral Protocol for Head Start
  Glenace Edwall and Antonia Wilcoxon. (Minnesota Department of Human Services, July 26, 2005). This powerpoint presentation from a session at the Early Childhood Mental Health Summer Institute was designed to educate providers on improving access to follow-up services.
  ReferralProtocol.ppt

• Emotional-Behavioral Screening by Primary Care Practitioner: Attitudes, Practices, and Barriers
  Katherine Murray, Andrew Barnes, Marjorie Ireland, et al. (Minnesota ABCD Project, 2006). This study assesses the specific techniques and instruments primary care pediatricians and family practitioners use to detect emotional and behavioral problems and describes their beliefs about the prevalence of these problems and barriers to universal screening. (From Abstract.)
  Em_Beh_Screening_final_draft.doc

• Informational letter: Billing Developmental services
  Iowa Department of Human Services, Iowa Medicaid Enterprise (Jan 11, 2007). This resource is an informational release regarding payment for use of standardized screening tool is not including in the reimbursement for a child’s preventive office visit or E/M service. This letter describes the codes used to bill for each standardized screening tool.
  4-Informational Release.doc

• Utah Medhome Portal
  Utah Medhome. (2006) This website was developed during the ABCD initiative in Utah. It provides information, tools, and resources to aid Primary Care Physicians in caring for Children with Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN) and providing a Medical Home for all of their patients. (From Website.)
  http://medhomeportal.org/