Health Payer Intelligence March 3, 2021
Hannah Nelson

To reach the CMS goal preventative care rates among children enrolled in Medicaid Managed Care plans, stakeholders must promote care access.

Although children enrolled in Medicaid managed care plans increased over the past seventeen years, children’s preventative care rates still fall short of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) goal, according to a study from Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago published in the journal Academic Pediatrics.

Researchers analyzed annual state-level CMS data to determine the relationship between Medicaid managed care, the predominant form of Medicaid coverage for children that focuses on preventative care, and receipt of preventive care services. Services included immunizations, lead level monitoring, growth and development evaluation, oral health surveillance, and screening...

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