State Innovations in EPSDT

Between 2007 and 2009, the National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP), with the support of The Commonwealth Fund worked with the Medicaid staff tasked with administering the EPSDT program (EPSDT coordinators) to support their efforts to improve children's access to health and developmental services as well as the quality of those services.  This technical report outlines eight innovative strategies states are using to achieve these goals and highlights three major goals that states were seeking to achieve for their EPSDT program.