Utah selected preferred developmental and social-emotional screening tools for infants and toddlers and for maternal depression and updated the Medicaid parent handbook and provider manual to recommend that clinicians use them. Utah also clarified inconsistencies between Medicaid EPSDT billing policies and the mental health agency’s audit procedures that were discouraging community mental health centers from providing services needed to treat or ameliorate a condition identified in an EPSDT screen unless a DSM-IV diagnosis could be assigned.

This section contains resources for "Improving Policy" developed by Utah.

• 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

• Utah Medicaid Provider Manual, CHEC Services
  Utah Department of Health. (July 2006). Available online at: http://health.utah.gov/medicaid/pdfs/CHEC/CHEC7-06.pdf. This section of the Medicaid Provider Manual describes Utah's Child Health Evaluation and Care (CHEC) program.
  http://health.utah.gov/medicaid/pdfs/CHEC/CHEC7-06.pdf

• Screening and Prevention Web Page
  Utah Medhome. Available online at: http://www.medhomeportal.org/sections/index.cfm?section_id=6§ion_content_id=99. This web page provides clinicians with information and resources about best practices in screening and treatment for developmental delays. It explains that the use of an objective screening tool is encouraged for EPSDT screens (see page 12).
  http://www.medhomeportal.org/sections/index.cfm?section_id=6§ion_content_id=99