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Healthcare Financing of Healthy Homes Services: Lead Case Studies
Tuesday, November 3, 2015
: 9:10 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
Healthcare financing of lead-poisoning follow-up services requires more than just having the right Medicaid policy in place. As a follow-up to a 2014 survey identifying states with Medicaid policies in place to provide coverage for lead-poisoning follow-up services, the National Center for Healthy Housing, the Milken Institute School of Public Health at the George Washington University and other collaborators have conducted a series of interviews with state Medicaid agencies, state and local health departments, advocates, and providers of healthy homes services to better understand what it takes to put lead-poisoning follow-up services in place. Two case studies of Medicaid coverage of lead poisoning follow-up services, in Ohio and Rhode Island, will be presented, with an emphasis on describing how the program operates, how the policy was put in place, barriers to implementation and lessons learned that may benefit public health agencies in other states.
Learning Areas:
Chronic disease management and prevention
Environmental health sciences
Public health or related public policy
Learning Objectives:
Discuss how Medicaid coverage of lead poisoning follow-up services was applied in Ohio and Rhode Island.
Keyword(s): Lead, Medicaid
Presenting author's disclosure statement:Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am a policy scientist with 15 years of experience planning, researching, and evaluating healthy homes efforts. My primary focus has been on local efforts to prevent lead poisoning and how local policies contribute to the national context of lead poisoning prevention and control.
Any relevant financial relationships? No
I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines,
and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed
in my presentation.
