Increasing California children's medicaid-financed mental health treatment by vigorously implementing medicaid's Early Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment (EPSDT) program

Medical Care

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 558-564

  Snowden, Lonnie R ^a   Masland, Mary ^a   Wallace, Neal ^b   Fawley King, Kya ^a   Cuellar, Alison Evans ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Access to care; Children; Medicaid; Mental health treatment; Policy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MASS SCREENING; MEDICAID; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; OBSERVATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESIDENTIAL CARE; RURAL POPULATION; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; CALIFORNIA; CATCHMENT AREA (HEALTH); CHILD; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FINANCING, GOVERNMENT; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MEDICAID; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; OBSERVATION; PROGRAM EVALUATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RURAL POPULATION; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 44449124709     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0b013e3181648e82     Document Type: Article

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