Identifying Medicaid-Eligible Pregnant Women, Infants and Children: A Guide for Health Centers and Other Maternal and Child Health Providers
Author: National Association of Community Health Centers
Date Published: 1987
This handbook is one of a series of manuals and guidance materials prepared by the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) for Community and Migrant Health Centers and other maternal and child health providers. These materials are part of NACHC's multi-year project, funded by the Ford Foundation, to strengthen the role of health centers in the delivery of health services to pregnant women and children. NACHC engages in research, education and advocacy on behalf on 800 health centers serving nearly 6 million people, including more than 3 million low-income children and women of childbearing age living in the nation's most medically underserved areas. Improving the availability, scope and quality of health care for poor pregnant women and children has been an essential part of the mission of health centers since their inception over 20 years ago. Health centers, because of their unique qualities including their community location, their longer hours, their ability to maintain multiple sites, their history of providing community to offering a wide array of high quality services, have succeeded in improving the health of the women and children they serve: major reductions in infant mortality--as much as 40 percent--have been achieved in areas served by health centers, because of the access they provide to high quality maternity and infant care. Health centers alone have been found to account for 12 percent of the decline in mortality among black infants that occurred in the United States between 1970 and 1978. NACHC's April, 1987, SOBRA mailing was the first in this series of guidance materials. This handbook for identifying Medicaid-eligible families is the second. It will be followed by a third manual that will comprehensively review maternal and child health "good practices" and identify ways in which health centers can best capture Medicaid revenues on behalf of these populations.
Date Published: 1987
This handbook is one of a series of manuals and guidance materials prepared by the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) for Community and Migrant Health Centers and other maternal and child health providers. These materials are part of NACHC's multi-year project, funded by the Ford Foundation, to strengthen the role of health centers in the delivery of health services to pregnant women and children. NACHC engages in research, education and advocacy on behalf on 800 health centers serving nearly 6 million people, including more than 3 million low-income children and women of childbearing age living in the nation's most medically underserved areas. Improving the availability, scope and quality of health care for poor pregnant women and children has been an essential part of the mission of health centers since their inception over 20 years ago. Health centers, because of their unique qualities including their community location, their longer hours, their ability to maintain multiple sites, their history of providing community to offering a wide array of high quality services, have succeeded in improving the health of the women and children they serve: major reductions in infant mortality--as much as 40 percent--have been achieved in areas served by health centers, because of the access they provide to high quality maternity and infant care. Health centers alone have been found to account for 12 percent of the decline in mortality among black infants that occurred in the United States between 1970 and 1978. NACHC's April, 1987, SOBRA mailing was the first in this series of guidance materials. This handbook for identifying Medicaid-eligible families is the second. It will be followed by a third manual that will comprehensively review maternal and child health "good practices" and identify ways in which health centers can best capture Medicaid revenues on behalf of these populations.
