Question

The state health department has issued a call for a proposal to design and implement an education plan for adolescent women on Medicaid. The part-time diabetes educator who is a consultant to your practice has requested to support to write the proposal. The 3-year proposal project is funded at $750,00a. Your revenues last year were 850,000 on an account base of $2 million. Your practice management team is meeting to consider the request. draft an outlining a process for deciding whether to support this project  

Answer 1

Plan for adolescent women on Medicaid - • Adopt current bright futures guidelines for adolescents : Encourage provideos to upgrade their practices to match current Bright auture well- care visit content, including anticipatory guidance and private time with the adolescent Aso make state adopted periodicity schedules well known to provideos • Incentivize providess, adolescents and their parents to encourage preventive care : Offer resources, including trainings and incentive Payments, to increase awareness of the full extent of fres preventive health care services available for adolescents in Medicaid Reward increased well case visit rates and encourage adolescents to make and keep appointments. Encourage teen centered care! Use managed care contracts to encourage providers to treat adolescents as important partners in their own care. link-payement to adolescento friendly performance requirements, including eta satisfaction with care privacy & confidentiality. • leverage missed opportunition to increase adolescent well-care visits: Episodic, acute care and sport required visits are opportunities to increase preventive care, immunizations and health education. Providers can take a proactive approach to well-care appointment - making Modifications to biling mechanisms allow preventive services on the same day as treatment visits.

• Use social media to increase well care visits: Use mobile devices, email and social networking sites to promote prevention education and services New media vehicles offer low cost avenues to develop and distribute health care messages tailored to adolescents Develop partnership with key community stakeholders! Mitigate barrier by increasing convenience & Accessible locations in communities or schools are best Improve well-care rates with evening and weekend appointments. Areatores feather be strekebobolaget Yes, this project has to be supported as expanded medicaid program provides greater access to health coverage. Medicaid provide more low income adults with access to health care Slovices, resulting in improved health outcomes