Medicaid Basics for Partners: Eligibility, Enrollment and Renewals

This brief overview describes key features of how Medicaid works, and links to resources with fuller explanations.

Medicaid and CHIP Renewals: Clinics and Medical Settings

This practical guide provides a series of tailored messages that can be used by professionals in clinic and medical settings to facilitate timely Medicaid / CHIP coverage renewal.

Medicaid and CHIP Renewals: Faith-Based Settings

This toolkit provides communication tips and scripts for faith-based communities looking to assist people in renewing Medicaid and CHIP coverage.

Medicaid and CHIP Renewals: Education Settings

This toolkit provides communication tips and scripts for education providers across multiple mediums. The toolkit links to a series of resources for Medicaid and CHIP renewals; many resources are also useful in facilitating initial enrollment in health insurance.

Medicaid Service Coverage and Funding Strategies

Best Practices for Adhering to EPSDT

This guidance document provides the most thorough set of examples and sources for deploying EPSDT-covered behavioral health services since the Guide for States was produced a decade ago.

Leveraging Multiple Funding Streams for Children's BH Services

This Informational Bulletin walks through major funding sources for children's behavioral health services (Medicaid, CHIP, and other HHS funding streams) and describes how they can be used in concert to provide an appropriate, full continuum of care.

Addressing SDOH via Medicaid and CHIP

This letter to State Health Officials outlines ways that Medicaid and CHIP funding can be utilized to address social determinants of health (SDOH). This is increasingly important as childhood financial instability and the turmoil that can come with it may seriously affect coping and behavioral health.

EPSDT - A Guide for States

The 2014 source guide on EPSDT is the foundational document for understanding this benefit and the resources and requirements associated with it.

BH Services for Youth with SUD

This informational bulletin helps states design a benefit to address the needs of youth with substance use disorders (SUD), consistent with the requirements of Medicaid's Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic and Treatment entitlement.

Black Youth Suicide Prevention

This 2024 Brief from SAMHSA addresses how systems can better identify and response to signs that a Black youth is at heightened risk of suicide.

Suicide Prevention Resource (CDC)

This resource document walks through the current evidence for how communities and states can reduce suicide risk factors and suicide.