Expand access to adequate and affordable health insurance coverage for adolescents and young adults.

This press release describes a new grant award from the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health (LPFCH) to address the cliff that low-income youth with special health care needs (YSHCN) face as they age into adulthood and lose their child eligibility status in 4 major public programs: Medicaid, Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Program, and Title V Programs for Children with Special Needs. See more →

A guide containing a step-by-step approach for state Medicaid and managed care organizations (MCOs) as well as commercial payers interested in starting a VBP initiative around pediatric-to-adult transitional care. See more →

These business case statements offer a call to action for payers – both Medicaid and commercial insurers – to pay for pediatric-to-adult health care transition (HCT) services. They provide background information about HCT and a description of how payers can cover HCT services. These resources, which were produced with funding support from the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health, can be shared with payers to encourage payment for these services. Click here for a Medicaid version, and click here for a commercial payer version.

This report offers options of contract provisions that state Medicaid agencies and managed care organizations can use or adapt to improve the availability of pediatric-to-adult health care transition services. See more →