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Resources for Obstetric Care Providers
Texas Children’s Health Plan invites you to watch a presentation on Promoting Women’s Health available here. Presented by TCHP’s Clinical Practice Consultant, Audrey Voss, DNP, RN, PMH-BC, CPHQ, LSSYB, from the June 2024 TCHP Provider Advisory Group meeting.
The objectives for this high-level overview are as follows:
- Review updates on Medicaid postpartum extension coverage under House Bill 12 (click here to view the Provider Alert)
- Review quality performance measures critical to women’s health and best practice recommendations to achieve them for your patients
- Understand CHIP Perinate specific considerations
Helpful resources:
- Birth Control Guide
- Prenatal Dental Care Information
- Perinatal Psychiatry Access Network (PeriPAN)
- Low-dose aspirin use for the prevention of morbidity and mortality from preeclampsia
- Syphilis, HIV, and Hepatitis B Testing and Pregnancy: State Requirements for Texas Clinicians
- Transportation Services (members are offered transportation services to medical visits, the pharmacy, and classes or events sponsored by TCHP at no cost)
- The American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists, Immunization for Pregnant Women: A Call to Action
- Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome Awareness
- Healthy Texas Women
Nurse-Family Partnership:
Nurse-Family Partnership is an evidence-based, community health program that serves first-time mothers and their families dealing with economic inequity. Texas Children’s Health Plan (TCHP) offers this program to eligible members. The program pairs Registered Nurses with low-income, first-time mothers to improve prenatal care and provide support, education, and counseling on health, parenting and developmental issues and life skills.
Learn more about the program:
Forms:
- Sterilization Consent Form (English)
- Sterilization Consent Form (Spanish)
- Women’s Health Care Coordination Referral Form (for opioid-dependent pregnant mothers)
- Nurse-Family Partnership Referral Form
Toolkits:
- HEDIS® Toolkit Chlamydia Screening (CHL)
- HEDIS® Toolkit Prenatal and Postpartum Care (PPC-PPC, TOPC)
- Postpartum Depression Toolkit
- Quick Reference Inpatient Quality Indicator Cesarean Delivery Rate, Uncomplicated (CES)
Reducing primary cesarean birth – resources:
From The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG)
- Cesarean Birth
- Cesarean Delivery on Maternal Request
- Deciding Between a VBAC and a Repeat Cesarean: 7 Questions to Ask
- Pregnancy at Age 35 Years or Older
- Placenta Accreta Spectrum
- Quick Reference Inpatient Quality Indicator Cesarean Delivery Rate, Uncomplicated (CES)
- More resources can be found on the ACOG website