Leveraging Medicaid, CHIP, and Other Federal Programs in the Delivery of Behavioral Health Services for Children and Youth
This CMCS Informational Bulletin seeks to remind state agencies of the federal requirements for the Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic and Treatment (EPSDT) benefit. This CIB also provides State Medicaid Agencies, agencies administering the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), state behavioral health agencies, state developmental disability agencies, and other stakeholders with relevant existing federal guidance and examples on ways that Medicaid and CHIP funding, alone or in tandem with funding from other federal programs of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), can be used in the provision of high-quality behavioral health services to children and youth.