CMS Needs To Do More To Improve Medicaid Children’s Utilization of Preventive Screening Services (OEI-05-13-00690)

This report was released November 12, 2014 by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) for the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The report was conducted as a follow-up to a 2010 OIG report about the degree to which children enrolled in Medicaid were not receiving all required Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment (EPSDT) medical screening services. The OIG reported that in 2013, 63% of the 45.3 million children enrolled in Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Only two states met the federal benchmark of 80 . . .