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

• The Contractor must conduct inter-periodic EPSDT screens on members to identify dental problems in conformance with Attachment D to this Agreement.

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

• Contractor shall establish a tracking system that provides up to date information on compliance with EPSDT service provision requirements in the following areas: • A clinical dental examination at the eruption of the first tooth and no later than twelve (12) month and • Every six months thereafter, or as indicated by the Child and/or young adult’s risk status/susceptibility to disease.

• EPSDT requires coverage for all follow up diagnostic and treatment services deemed Medically Necessary to ameliorate or correct a problem discovered during an EPSDT screen.

• Consistent with federal guidance, services need not be curative or completely restorative to ameliorate a health condition, including substance misuse and SUDs. Services that sustain, support, improve, or make more tolerable substance misuse or a SUD are considered to ameliorate the condition and are thus covered as EPSDT services.

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 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.

EPSDT means early and periodic screening, diagnosis and treatment of persons under s. DHS 107.22.