MED-OCID Policy Brief on Building a System of Care for Children With Special Health Care Needs

Children and youth with special health care needs often receive services from many different care providers and settings, including specialty health care, education systems, and other state agencies such as child welfare. Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program play a significant role in the care of children with special needs.

Developed through a collaboration between the Medicaid Evidence-based Decisions Project (MED) and the Oregon Child Integrated Dataset project (OCID), the policy brief Building an Integrated System of  Care for Children and Youth  With Special Health Care Needs highlights Medicaid-related tools and models that states use to build pediatric systems of care. It also leverages the linked, cross-agency and cross-program information in OCID to profile the distinct needs and  experiences of this group of children in Oregon. An appendix with OCID analysis methods and additional data tables can be found here.