EPSDT definition

EPSDT means early and periodic screening, diagnosis, and treatment.
EPSDT means the Early Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment program administered by DMAS for children under the age of 21 according to federal guidelines (that prescribe preventive and treatment services for Medicaid eligible children) as defined in 12VAC30-50-130.
EPSDT means the Early Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment program administered by DMAS for children under the age of 21 according to federal guidelines which prescribe specific preventive and treatment services for Medicaid-eligible children.

Examples of EPSDT in a sentence

  • Pediatric practices that serve a small number of adult patients are not adult practices, and do not need to meet the requirements specific to adult populations Please note that EPSDT requirements are required for any MassHealth members 21 years of age or younger, regardless of the practice type.

  • Examples of Category III changes: o All Eligibility Changes; o Changes in EPSDT; o Spend-down level changes; o Aggregate cost-sharing changes that are not consistent with Medicaid cost- sharing flexibility (would exceed 5 percent of family income) in current Medicaid regulations; o Benefit changes that are not in accordance with current Medicaid regulations; and o Post-eligibility treatment of income; and o Amendments requesting changes to the budget neutrality limits.

  • Healthchek, Ohio’s early and periodic screening, diagnostic, and treatment (EPSDT) and Pregnancy Related Services programs, are outlined in OAC rules 5160:1‐2‐15 and 5160:1‐2‐16.

  • Such information includes timely submission of reports including child health check-up reporting, EPSDT encounters, and cancer screening encounters, if applicable, as well as complete and accurate encounter data in accordance with the requirements of United and the State.

  • Therapeutic Behavioral Services (TBS) are specialty mental health services covered as Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic and Treatment (EPSDT).


More Definitions of EPSDT

EPSDT means the federally mandated Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment program contained at 42 U.S.C. 1396d(r). The name has been changed to Texas Health Steps in the State of Texas.
EPSDT means the agency's early and periodic screen- ing, diagnostic, and treatment program for clients age twenty and younger as described in chapter 182-534 WAC.
EPSDT means the federally mandated Medicaid benefit that entitles full-scope Medi-Cal- 22 covered beneficiaries less than twenty-one (21) years of age to receive any Medicaid service necessary 23 to correct or help to improve a defect, mental illness, or other condition, such as a substance-related 24 disorder, that is discovered during a health screening.
EPSDT means early and periodic screening, diagnosis and treatment of persons under s. DHS 107.22.
EPSDT means the Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment program.
EPSDT means early and periodic screening, diagnosis, and treatment, medicaid's child health component providing a mandatory and comprehensive set of benefits and services for children up to age twenty one as defined in WAC 182-534- 0100.
EPSDT means the Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment program administered by the Medicaid program.