New Mexico

New Mexico participated in the ABCD Screening Academy as a “Setting the Stage for Success” grantee, a project designed to learn from and replicate the North Carolina ABCD Project model for integrating standardized developmental screening into well-child care visits.  Specifically, the ABCD Screening Academy activities  in New Mexico included:

• Revising reimbursement policy to allow providers to bill the 96110 code when a objective, validated screening tool is administered. 
• Proposing to the New Mexico Legislature that structured developmental screening be required under EPSDT.
• Investigating the possibility of purchasing state access to Ages and Stages Questionnaire (ASQ) in both English and Spanish for use by all EPSDT providers.
• Designing a poster series targeting both primary care and other child and family service providers working with young children and parents that promotes standardized developmental screening.
• Sustaining and spreading improvement activities through grant proposals - one which will implement structured screening in 8 additional communities and the other which will enable practices participating in the Developmental Screening Initiative (DSI) to qualify as part of a pediatric quality improvement program.  By mplementing structured screening as part of well child care in this program, providers would meet Part 4 of required recertification guidelines for continued licensure as a pediatrician.