Findings from Oregon team’s CoIIN QI project presented at the Adolescent Health Initiative virtual meeting 2021.

State Medicaid programs are required to provide Medicaid enrollees under age 21 with comprehensive and preventive health care services through the Early Screening and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic and Treatment (EPSDT) benefit. Federal law requires states to cover “medically necessary services” under the EPSDT benefit “whether or not such services are covered…

States are increasingly interested in care coordination as a strategy for improving systems of care for children with medical complexity (CMC) and their families. The Section 2703 Medicaid Health Home State Option and the new Advancing Care for Exceptional (ACE) Kids Act Health Home State Option present opportunities to enhance…

This issue brief, written in partnership with the National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP), describes how states define CYSHCN within Medicaid and Title V CYSHCN programs and explores the implications of these definitions. Federal and state program approaches to defining children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN) can…

The public health emergency resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic has real implications for state Title V programs as well as families raising children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN). These fact sheets address a variety of relevant topics, such as Medicaid and CHIP programs and the CARES Act. 

Part of the Catalyst Center COVID-19 Resource Series.  The public health emergency resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic has real implications for state Title V programs as well as families raising children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN). State programs like Medicaid/CHIP and Title V, which are…

Part of the Catalyst Center COVID-19 Resource Series.  The public health emergency resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic has real implications for state Title V programs as well as families raising children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN). State programs like Medicaid/CHIP and Title V, which are…

Part of the Catalyst Center COVID-19 Resource Series.  The public health emergency resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic has real implications for state Title V programs as well as families raising children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN). State programs like Medicaid/CHIP and Title V, which are…

On May 10th at the 2019 Family Voices Leadership conference, the Catalyst Center presented on a Partnership Opportunities Panel. The slides detail our work as the National Center on Health Insurance Coverage and Financing of Care for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs, how we partner with families…

On March 10th at the 2019 Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs (AMCHP) conference, the Catalyst Center presented an infographic series on the fundamentals of financing the system of care for CYSHCN. The presentation reviews the rationale for the infographic series, key content in each infographic, and explores how…