Calling All California Independent Nurses for Medi-Cal's EPSDT

[CharlaRN]

Independent Nurse Providers for California Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment (EPSDT) are Independent Nurses who provide care for Medically Fragile Foster Children in their own homes; thereby removing children from Group Homes, the hospital, and the Foster Care System, yet providing the necessary skilled nursing needs the child requires. We bill Medi-Cal for the hours that Medi-Cal In-Home Operations, EPSDT approves of for the child (according to California Title 22 Regulations of whether a child meets the description of Subacute or Nursing Facility care).

What would be SO helpful is to share our resources, information, ideas, and paperwork strategies with eachother. By pooling resources and putting our collective heads together, we should be able to make it easier for the INP to comply with the Medi-Cal requirements for documentation of our Nursing Notes, Plan of Treatment (POT) and Treatment Authorization Request (TAR).

If you, or anyone you know, fit this description of an INP, will you please contact me? I will put you on our list and send you some information that has been gathered so far. It should not be such an isolating experience to be an INP for California's Medi-Cal program.

Charla