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Medicaid and CHIP offer a variety of programs to provide health care for low-income children and families. Find the right program for your needs.

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Texas Health Steps is healthcare for children birth through age 20 who have Medicaid. Texas Health Steps gives your child free medical checkups starting at birth, and free dental checkups starting at 6 months of age.

These campuses provide psychiatric services for mentally ill persons and persons with mental illness and intellectual developmental disabilities throughout the North Texas area, as well as the entire state.

The Children with Special Health Care Needs Services Program helps children 20 and younger who have special health care needs and people with cystic fibrosis of any age improve their health, well-being and quality of life.

The Title V Maternal and Child Health Fee-for-Service program is available to low-income women, children and adolescents who aren’t eligible for Medicaid, CHIP, CHIP Perinatal or another program that covers the same service.

Primary Health Care Program works with clinic sites across Texas to ensure eligible Texas residents can get comprehensive primary health care services, to prevent, detect and treat health problems.

Community mental health services are usually provided at an office or in the home. Services support families to make positive changes that help children recover from mental illness and foster resilience.

The adult Medicaid, children’s Medicaid and CHIP benefit packages do not have aggregate lifetime limits or annual dollar limits; and, neither the adult Medicaid nor the children’s Medicaid benefit packages have financial requirements for beneficiaries. CHIP has co-pays ranging from $5-$35, depending on income, and an annual dollar limit based on the family’s income.

As required by Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act, when the managed care organization does not provide the full scope of services, the state must review the mental health and substance use disorder (MHSUD), and medical and surgical (MS) benefits provided through the MCO and fee-for-service for parity compliance.

Texas Health and Human Services or the managed care organization must identify and analyze aggregate lifetime limits and annual dollar limits for parity compliance in each benefit package if these types of limitations apply to mental health and substance use disorder benefits.

The parity compliance analysis for financial requirements and quantitative and non-quantitative treatment limitations is conducted by benefit package.

Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program managed care organizations that offer mental health and substance use disorder benefits are required to provide coverage that is comparable to their coverage for general medical and surgical care.