Iowa featured ABCD at a conference for Iowa's leading health programs and state legislators to begin developing a children's health agenda in Iowa. Iowa Medicaid and the Prevention of Disabilities Policy Council have signed an agreement to continue the EPSDT Collaborative Board and the ABCD II Healthy Mental Development Panel to provide oversight of health provider training activities and to advise Iowa Medicaid about implementation of key components of a healthy mental development system of care as a part of EPSDT.

This section contains resources for "Engaging Leaders" developed by Iowa.

• Agenda from Leadership Workshop on EPSDT and Title V: Collaboration to Improve Child Health Outcomes: April 27, 2006
  Iowa ABCD Project (2006). An agenda from a Leadership Workshop on improving collaboration between EPSDT and Title V services.
  App. Four - Agenda 27th.doc

• Early Childhood Health Systems Integration: Principles for consideration, newsletter
  Iowa Institute for Public Health Practice. (February 2006). This document is a summary of 5 goals arising from conference:
  App. 12 - EC Principles.pdf

• Early Childhood Health Systems Integration: Principles for consideration, newsletter
  Iowa Institute for Public Health Practice. (February 2006). This document is a summary of 5 goals arising from conference:
  App. 12 - EC Principles.pdf

• Iowa's ABCD II Healthy Mental Development Panel Prevention and Identification Workgroup
  Iowa's ABCD Project. (2004). This resource is a list of workgroup members, staff and responsibliites of the Developmental and Early Identification Workgroup under the ABCD Healthy Mental Development panel.
  Appendix Four.pdf

• Iowa's EPSDT/ABCD Healthy Mental Development panel
  Iowa's ABCD Project. (2004). This resource is a list of responsibilites, logistics and membership for the Healthy Mental Development Panel. The Panel was charged with recommending standards and policies needed to develop an effective, coherent healthy mental development system in Iowa, and monitoring project implementation and recommending changes to standards and delivery systems based on the project evaluation.
  Appendix Three.pdf

• Iowa's EPSDT/ABCD II Collaborative Board
  Iowa's ABCD Project. (2004). This resource is a list of the responsibliites, logistics and membership of the EPSDT Interagency Collaborative Board. The EPSDT Interagency Collaborative Board (a pre-existing group) oversaw the Iowa ABCD project—receiving and acting on recommendations from the Health Mental Development Panel.
  Appendix One.doc

• Early Childhood Health Systems Integration: Principles for consideration, newsletter
  Iowa Institute for Public Health Practice. (February 2006). This document is a summary of 5 goals arising from the conference: "Off to a good start: Framing policy for early childhood health systems integration" held 10/27/05 to promote use of standardized screening tools.
  App. 12 - EC Principles.pdf

• ABCD II Findings and Recommendations to Iowa Medicaid to Support the Healthy Mental Development of Iowa’s Young Children
  Iowa ABCD Project (2006). This report to Iowa Medicaid details findings and recommendations from ABCD pilot sites and the Medicaid Barriers workgroup in an effort to improve EPSDT services and add to the Medicaid Reform Child Health Plan.
  App. 8 ABCDII Recs to Medicaid.doc

• Iowa's ABCD II Healthy Mental Development Project �The ABCD II Project�
  Iowa's ABCD II Project. (2005). This document is a list of anticipated questions and answers regarding the ABCD II project. This resources seeks to address unanswered questions as to how the early development of young children, and their families, can be coordinated and improved. (From Introduction)
  App. #3 Intro and Q A Final DBQ.doc

• Medicaid Barriers to Interventions Work Group Roster
  Iowa's ABCD Project. (2005). This resource is a list of workgroup members, staff and responsibliites of the Medicaid barriers to Inverventions workgroup under the ABCD Healthy Mental Development panel.
  IA Work Group Members.doc

• Engaging and Working with Stakeholders
  Scott Allen, Lori Smith, Carrie Fitzgerald (2007). This presentation (shared at the June 18, 2007 ABCD TA call) describes why stakeholder engagement is important and details how three states (Illinois, Utah, and Iowa) reached out to stakeholders and structured their advisory groups.
  Engaging & Working with Stakeholders 6-18-07.ppt

• Billing Codes for Iowa’s EPSDT Care for Kids Services
  Iowa Department of Human Services. Available online at: http://www.iowaepsdt.org/Services/BillingCode.htm#screening. This EPSDT Care for Kids website section contains billing code information. It clarifies that providers may crosswalk the Early Childhood DC: 0-3 with the DSMIV or ICD-9 diagnostic codes to bill for the screening service (see
  http://www.iowaepsdt.org/Services/BillingCode.htm#screening

• Billing Codes for Iowa's EPSDT Care for Kids Services
  Iowa Department of Human Services. Available online at: http://www.iowaepsdt.org/Services/BillingCode.htm#screening. This EPSDT Care for Kids website section contains billing code information. It clarifies that providers may crosswalk the Early Childhood DC: 0-3 with the DSMIV or ICD-9 diagnostic codes to bill for the screening service (see
  http://www.iowaepsdt.org/Services/BillingCode.htm#screening