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

Forms:

• Sterilization Consent Form (English)
• Sterilization Consent Form (Spanish)
• Women’s Health Care Coordination Referral Form (for opioid-dependent pregnant mothers)

Toolkits:

• HEDIS® Quick Reference for Prenatal and Postpartum Care
• 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