Benefit Design/Service Delivery Topics Covered
One of the factors contributing to optimal children's health is access to appropriate and comprehensive health care. Children need a continuum of services including: preventive care and routine screenings; primary, acute, and emergency care; ancillary and support services (translation, transportation); behavioral health care; and reproductive health care.
Although primary and preventive care are the major components of children's health care, specialized health care services are important in the development of SCHIP benefit and service delivery systems given that, among the SCHIP target population (i.e., uninsured children in low-income families), an estimated 17 percent have special health care needs (Newacheck, et al.). Ample latitude within the Title XXI legislation provides States the flexibility needed to design SCHIP benefit packages and service delivery systems which meet the broad range of health care needs of these children.
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Benefit Design
