Enhance Referrals and Follow-up Services
What Can Policymakers Do?
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Use Medicaid and SCHIP to provide care coordination services to families.
Connecticut’s
Help Me Grow
program involves both a community health liaison who identifies community resources and a family care coordinator who identifies concerns, helps schedule appointments, and reports back to the primary care provider.
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Support primary care practices that incorporate social and developmental services
.
North Carolina
expanded its
Medicaid rules
to allow billing by physicians for on-site, supervised mental health services provided by employees who are either clinical social workers or clinical nurse specialists with psychiatric training.
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Fine, A & Mayer, R (2006). Beyond Referral: Pediatric Care Linkages to Improve Developmental Health. Commonwealth Fund.