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Product

Medicaid EPSDT Benefit

Center:

IN-Indiana Institute on Disability and Community, UCEDD

Fiscal Year:

2017

Contact Information:

Pam Anderson
[email protected]
812-855-6508

Product Description:

This article discusses the Medicaid EPSDT Benefit. The Medicaid EPSDT (Early, Periodic, Screening, Diagnostic, Treatment) benefit provides preventive and comprehensive health care services for children under age 21 who are enrolled in Medicaid. EPSDT ensures that children, up through age twenty, receive appropriate medically necessary care including preventive and corrective developmental, and specialty services. This includes autism treatment benefits such as Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) therapy for those children for whom it is medically necessary.

Keyword(s):

medicaid, autism coverage, autism treatment, autism, health care

Product/Publication Type(s):

Reports and monographs

Target Audience:

Consumers/Families, Professionals, Policymakers

Alternative Format:

Visual Format or Large Print, Electronic (disc, CD, 508 compliant web posting)

To Obtain Copies (URL or Email):

https://www.iidc.indiana.edu/pages/medicaid-epsdt

COVID-19 Related Data:

N/A