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

Watch Presentation

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:

Flyer for providers
Flyer for members ( English and Spanish )
Nurse-Family Partnership Referral Form
Nurse-Family Partnership Enrollment Form
Nurse-Family Partnership Presentation

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:

Reducing primary cesarean birth – resources:

From The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG)