Early and periodic screening, diagnostic, and treatment (EPSDT) services are available to all <u>children</u> who are enrolled in the <u>Medicaid</u>
Explanation:
The EPSDT benefit is a comprehensive health benefit program exclusively for individuals under the age of 21 years who are enrolled in Medicaid in order to provide the appropriate and required healthcare under preventive, dental, mental, developmental, and specialty health services as per federal guidelines.
This helps to ameliorate the existing health conditions of children and adolescents by providing healthcare services in the form of:
Early: Early assessment and identification of a health problem
Periodic: Periodic, paced age-appropriate health check-ups
Screening: Screening tests under various categories like physical, mental, developmental, vision, hearing, dental etc to detect any problem
Diagnostic: Diagnostic test or studies are performed as required appropriately as needed to validate physical findings
Treatment: Treatment services to correct, cure, and control and reduce health issues.
