EPSDT Guidance
State Medicaid Directors Letters, State Health Official Letters, and Reports to Congress
- RTC: Review of Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment in States’ Medicaid Programs - December 2025
- SHO: Best Practices for Adhering to Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment (EPSDT) Requirements - September 2024
- CIB: Requirements of Section 12005 of the 21st Century Cures Act - EPSDT - June 2018
- CIB: The Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic and Treatment (EPSDT) benefit for children and youth in managed care - January 2017
EPSDT Strategy Guides to Support States with the Medicaid Benefit for Children and Adolescents
CMS developed a set of strategy guides to support states and their partners as they implement the EPSDT benefit. Each strategy guide identifies specific, doable approaches to improve access, utilization and quality of care for children and adolescents enrolled in Medicaid. Examples of state successes are offered along with web-based links to resources, tools and more in-depth information.
The four guides in the series are:
- EPSDT - A Guide for States: Coverage in the Medicaid Benefit for Children and Adolescents
- Keep Kids Smiling: Promoting Oral Health Through the Medicaid Benefit for Children & Adolescents
- Paving the Road to Good Health: Strategies for Increasing Medicaid Adolescent Well-Care Visits
- Making Connections: Strategies for Strengthening Care Coordination in the Medicaid Benefit for Children & Adolescents