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EPSDT

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EPSDTEarly and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment
EPSDTEarly Prevention, Screening, Detection and Treatment (illness program)


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For children in Medicaid, who generally are entitled to coverage of comprehensive health screenings, including well-child check ups, as part of the federally required EPSDT benefit, most but not all states reported to GAO that they monitored or set goals related to children's utilization of preventive services and had undertaken initiatives to promote their provision.
14) "Particularly problematic is the loss of dental coverage at age 21 for special needs children as they age-out of the mandatory EPSDT Medicaid program and become subject to limitations in adult coverage.
We need only look at programs related to the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), mental health parity, Medicaid's EPSDT program (Early Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment), state insurance law reform for students with autism, reduction of Medicaid waiting lists, enlargement of home and community-based services, personal assistance programs, and participant-directed services, the recent enactment of the Kennedy-Brownback Act (P.
 
 
 
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