To make the new program feasible, the Medicaid agency collapsed certain billing codes into a new billing structure.  The agency revised payment rates for home visits and established rates for phone consultation.  In addition, all Healthy Babies, Kids, and Families providers in the state adopted a new form for communicating with one another. The C-Tool, as it is known, is designed to provide timely, pertinent, and non-duplicative information to participating agencies and to help ensure a more coordinated delivery of services for individual clients.

This section contains resources for “Improving Policy" developed by Vermont.

• Healthy Babies, Kids and Families Web Page
  Child Development Division, Vermont Department for Children and Families. Available online at: http://www.dcf.state.vt.us/cdd/programs/prevention/hbkf/index.html. This website provides information about Vermont's Healthy Babies, Kids and Families program, a project of the Child Development Division. The division brings together three child development programs to support the delivery of integrated services; this website communicates the division's expectations and services.
  http://www.dcf.state.vt.us/cdd/programs/prevention/hbkf/index.html