check-up' on medicaid and peachcare: successes & opportunities for children
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Presentation to: Voices for Georgia’s Children
Presented by: Janice Carson, MD
Assistant Chief
Division of Medical Assistance Plans
Date: 8/26/15
‘Check-Up’ on Medicaid and PeachCareSuccesses and Opportunities for Children
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MissionThe Georgia Department of Community Health
We will provide Georgians with access to affordable, quality health care through
effective planning, purchasing and oversight.
We are dedicated to A Healthy Georgia.
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Overview
Medicaid and CHIP Services for Children – the EPSDT Benefit
Measuring Service Delivery and Quality - CFR Requirements and Performance Reporting
Performance Improvement ActivitiesQuestions
OverviewOur Members – Enrollment and DemographicsFederal Requirements
The Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) The Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic and
Treatment (EPSDT) BenefitEPSDT and Bright FuturesSuccesses and OpportunitiesQuestions
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Our Members – Ages 0 - 20
Medicaid FFS, 60,331
Georgia Families, 1,154,859
PCK, 135,394
GF 360, 27,511
The membership as of August 1, 2015
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Our Members
0 100000 200000 300000 400000 500000 600000 700000 800000 900000
FFS
GF
PCK
GF 360
FFS GF PCK GF 360Unknown 15276 9 0 5607Rural 3241 363266 40974 2010Urban 41814 791584 94420 19894
Urban vs Rural
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Our Members
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Our Members
FFS Georgia Families
PCK GF 360
Male 38,934 574,808 69,408 14,358
Female 21,392 580,050 65,986 13,153
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Federal Requirements - The CFR A Roadmap for Medicaid Managed Care
Subpart D
Subpart E
Subpart F
Subpart B Subpart C
Subpart A
Managed Care Guidance Route42CFR438
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CFR – CITE: 42CFR438 Subparts
• Subpart A – General Provisions – Rules that managed care organizations and the contracts between the State and the CMOs must meet
• Subpart B – State Responsibilities – Choice of CMOs, disenrollment, etc.
• Subpart C – Enrollee Rights and Protections• Subpart D – Quality Assessment Performance Improvement• Subpart E – External Quality Review• Subpart F – Grievance System• Also Subparts H, I, J and recent NPRM
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The CFR Requirements
• Quality Assessment and Performance Improvement (QAPI) Program for Medicaid Managed Care42CFR438 Subpart D–Requires states to develop a quality assessment and performance improvement (QAPI) strategy to assess and improve the quality of managed care services; –Initial strategy, any significant revisions and regular reports about the implementation and effectiveness of the strategy submitted to CMS.
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The CFR Requirements
• QAPI Program must:– Have procedures that:
• assess quality and appropriateness of care• regularly monitor and evaluate compliance w/standards
– Include:• national performance measures developed by CMS – Child Core
Set of Measures (24 child and maternity-related measures)• provisions for an annual external independent quality review of
quality outcomes, timeliness of and access to services
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Federal EPSDT Benefit
• Available for all Medicaid-eligible children birth to twenty-one (21) years of age
• Available for all eligible PeachCare for Kids®
members, Georgia’s standalone CHIP program, from birth to nineteen (19) years of age. Majority of all Georgia Medicaid
members and the CHIP members are under age 21.
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EPSDT Benefit
• Section 1905(r) of the Social Security Act states the Georgia’s EPSDT Benefit must make available:
– Screening Services -- Screening services must include all of the following services:
– Comprehensive health and developmental history -- (including assessment of both physical and mental health development);
– Comprehensive unclothed physical exam -- (unclothed means to the extent necessary to conduct a full, age-appropriate examination);
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EPDST Benefit
– Appropriate immunizations based on ACIP guidelines. Vaccines available for Medicaid members via Vaccines for Children (VFC) program
– Appropriate Laboratory Tests – Lead Toxicity Screening – Health Education – including anticipatory guidance. Health
Education should assist with understanding what to expect relative to the child's development and provide information about the benefits of healthy lifestyles and practices, vaccine preventable diseases, as well as accident and disease prevention;
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EPSDT Benefit• Vision Services -- Including diagnosis and treatment for defects in
vision; and eyeglasses. Vision services must be provided according to the periodicity schedule and at other intervals as medically necessary;
• Dental Services – Including relief of pain and infections, restoration of teeth and maintenance of dental health. Services are provided in accordance with the AAPD dental periodicity schedule.
• Hearing Services – including diagnosis and treatment of hearing problems
• Other Necessary Health Care to correct or ameliorate defects, and physical and mental illnesses and conditions discovered by the screening services.
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CFR, EPSDT and Bright Futures
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2014 Bright Futures Schedule
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EPSDT, BF and Continuous Improvement
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Measuring Successes and Opportunities
• CMS Child Core Set, the CMS 416 report, etc. used to track performance.
• Child Core Set focus areas include: – Perinatal Period: Timeliness of Prenatal Care; Maternity Behavioral Health Risk
Assessment; Ongoing Prenatal Care; LBW– Infancy, Childhood and Adolescence: Access to Primary Care, Well-Child Visits
for Infants, Children and Adolescents; Lead Screening, Immunizations; HPV Vaccine Use; Weight Assessment and Counseling for Nutrition and Physical Activity; Developmental Screening; Preventive Dental Services; Testing for Pharyngitis; Treatment for URIs; Follow-Up for ADHD
• GF 360 Data – Members enrolled on March 3, 2014 – baseline performance year for the program.
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Successes and Opportunities – GF and GF 360
Successes• Prenatal Visit within 1st
trimester or 42 days of enrollment – 79% - 82%
Opportunities• Ongoing prenatal visits 81% or
greater expected – 48% - 58%• BH Risk Assessments at first
visit for Pregnant Women (depression, alcohol, tobacco use, drug use, intimate partner violence) – 0% - 10%; GF 360 = 3.6%
• LBW rate – 8.9% - 9.2%• GF 360 Prenatal Visit within 1st
trimester = 47%
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Successes and Opportunities – GF and GF 360
Successes• Access to PCP for 12 – 24 mos > 97%;
GF 360 = 96%• Access to PCP for 25 mos – 6 yrs = 90%
- 91%; GF 360 = 86%• GF Access to PCP for 12 – 19 yrs = 89%
- 91%; GF 360 = 79%• Childhood Imm by age 2 = 79% - 84%• Lead Screening – 78% - 81%
Opportunities• Well Child Visits – six or more in first 15
mos = 65% - 67%; GF 360 = 43%• Annual WCV for 3 - 6 yrs = 67% - 74%;
GF 360 = 70%• Annual Adolescent WCVs for 12 – 21 yrs
= 49% - 53%; GF 360 = 46%• BMI – 54% - 69%; Counseling for nutrition
– 59% - 65%; Counseling for physical activity – 53% - 60%; GF 360 = 39%, 35%, 32%
• GF 360 Childhood Imm by age 2 = 45%• GF 360 Lead Screening = 64%
Blue measures linked to EPSDT and Bright Futures
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Successes and Opportunities – GF and GF 360
Successes• Adolescent Immunizations
(Mening & Td) – 76% - 80%• Appropriate Testing for
Pharyngitis – 79% - 81%• Annual Dental Visits – 67% -
69%; GF 360 = 75%
Opportunities• HPV Vaccine (3 doses by age
13) – 20% - 25%• 30 d Follow up Care for ADHD
(6 – 12 yo) – 44% - 49%; 9 mo Follow Up – 58% - 64%
• Appropriate treatment for children with URI – 83% - 86%
• Developmental screening – 38% - 46%; GF 360 = 24%
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Continuous Improvement
• Child-focused Performance Improvement Projects in place with the CMOs that focus on improvements in preventive service utilization, dental service utilization, ADHD follow up, and postpartum visits to reduce LBW rates.
• DCH and our partners are working collaboratively to improve the health outcomes for our members.
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Questions
Contact Information:
Janice Carson, MDAssistant ChiefGeorgia Department of Community HealthDivision of Medical Assistance [email protected]