EPSDT Services

The Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic and Treatment (EPSDT) benefit provides comprehensive and preventive health care services for children under age 21 who are enrolled in Medicaid. EPSDT is key to ensuring that children and adolescents receive appropriate preventive, dental, mental health, and developmental, and specialty services.

• Early: Assessing and identifying problems early
• Periodic: Checking children’s health at periodic, age-appropriate intervals
• Screening: Providing physical, mental, developmental, dental, hearing, vision, and other screening tests to detect potential problems
• Diagnostic: Performing diagnostic tests to follow up when a risk is identified, and
• Treatment: Control, correct or reduce health problems found.

EPSDT Screening Services

• Comprehensive health and developmental history
• Comprehensive unclothed physical exam
• Appropriate immunizations (according to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices)
• Laboratory tests (including lead toxicity screening 
• Health Education (anticipatory guidance including child development, healthy lifestyles, and accident and disease prevention)

We provide EPSDT 6 days a week! No appointment necessary!