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26May

Provider Alert! Texas Health Steps (THSteps) and CHIP medical checkups via remote delivery

Date: May 25, 2022 Attention: Primary Care Physicians Effective Date: Dates of Service May 7, 2020 – End of Public Health Emergency The content in this message will remain in effect through the end of the public health emergency, as announced by the Health and Human Services Commission. TCHP COVID-19 Utilization Management Procedure and TCHP provider alerts can be found here: http://www.thecheckup.org/provider-alerts/ Providers should monitor the Texas Children’s Health Plan (TCHP) Provider Portal regularly for alerts and updates associated to the COVID-19 event.  TCHP reserves...

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14Dec

Texas Health Steps Checkup Documentation — Essential to Medical Records

As a Texas Health Steps (THSteps) provider you affect the lives of many young Texans. The care you provide helps prevent serious or chronic health-care problems and often helps young patients begin to develop positive lifelong health-care habits. Being a THSteps provider can be very rewarding. It can also be very challenging, especially when it comes to medical checkup documentation. Independent studies of THSteps medical checkups indicate that records were most commonly missing documentation of appropriate laboratory tests and immunizations.   THSteps...

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07Sep

THSteps Checkup Documentation — Essential to Medical Records

As a Texas Health Steps (THSteps) provider you affect the lives of many young Texans. The care you provide helps prevent serious or chronic health-care problems and often helps young patients begin to develop positive lifelong health-care habits. Being a THSteps provider can be very rewarding. It can also be very challenging, especially when it comes to medical checkup documentation. Independent studies of Texas Health Steps medical checkups indicate that records were most commonly missing documentation of appropriate laboratory tests...

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23Dec

Provider Alert! Billing Update for Texas Health Steps

To: All Texas Health Steps Providers Subject: Reminder – Billing for Texas Health Steps Services to Texas Children’s Health Plan Texas Children’s Health Plan follows the State of Texas Medicaid guidelines for Texas Health Steps checkups including the following: “Texas Health Steps medical checkups reflect the federal and state requirements for a preventive checkup. Preventive care medical checkups are a benefit of the Texas Health Steps program if they are provided by enrolled Texas Health Steps providers and all of the required components...

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