Ohio AAP and Medicaid MCOs are Partnering to Provide You with Customized Strategies & Resources to Improve Care for At-Risk Kids

As you may know, immunization and well-visit rates in Ohio are low, specifically in at-risk populations. Ohio AAP and the Medicaid Managed Care Organizations (MCO) of Ohio want to know why and are poised to support you in practice.  We aim to learn from your practice ways that Ohio’s MCOs can support your operations in key area such as transportation, billing/payment, and incentives.

We have partnered to develop a quality improvement project that will serve to deliver improved health outcomes and mitigate barriers for children around well care and immunization rates.

Practice coaching will be utilized to support practices in making key interventions to support custom practice change around well care and immunizations.

Benefits for participating practices include:

-50 MOC Part IV Points

-10 MOC Part II Points

-Billing and Payment Coaching-Work closely with Ohio Medicaid Managed Care plans to improve patient care and outcomes and to ease your administrative burden

-Enhanced reimbursement through CPC for Kids 

Direct Well Care Benefits:

• Outreach materials – including bilingual postcards
• Training on developing and implementing clinic strategies for all clinic staff to focus on reminder and recall strategies and scheduling priorities
• Posters and educational materials for families on WCC and sports physicals
• Guidance on developing a system to identify the children overdue for WCC using clinic billing data or managed care plan data
• Strategies to utilize opportunities to engage patients in well care when they are present in the clinic

Direct Immunization Benefits:

• Increase immunization rate using IQIP (state registry) to track immunization status
• Initiate reminder letters (bilingual) for children overdue for immunizations
• Add reminder/recall outreach to medical assistant’s job description
• Combine immunization reminder with WCV reminder (bilingual)
• Exclusive access to resources on lead screening, dental care, healthy weight, mental health depression screening and more

Enroll today, space is limited! Contact Kristen Fluitt, MS at kfluitt@ohioaap.org with questions.

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