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The Comprehensive Health Homes for Integrated Care (CHIC) Kids Pilot began Dec. 1, 2022, and will end Sept. 1, 2025.
The CHIC Kids Pilot focuses on enhancing care coordination for children with complex health conditions through a partnership between a health home for children with medically complex conditions and a member’s Medicaid managed care organization (MCO).
The Pilot’s goals are to:
- Improve care coordination
- Improve access to care and health outcomes
- Improve member and caregiver satisfaction
- Identify opportunities to reduce administrative burden
To be eligible for the Pilot, a person must be:
- A member of the STAR Kids program
- Diagnosed with complex medical conditions
- 20 years old or younger
MCO and provider participation in the Pilot is voluntary. Pilot sites include:
- Aetna Better Health of Texas partnering with Children’s Health Complex Care Medical Services
- Aetna Better Health of Texas partnering with Children’s Health
- Amerigroup partnering with Angels of Care Pediatric Home Health
- Amerigroup partnering with Children’s Health
- Amerigroup partnering with the High Risk Children’s Complex Care Program at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
- Blue Cross and Blue Shield partnering with Seton Children’s Comprehensive Care (CCC) Clinic
- Community First Health Plan partnering with University Medicine Associates
- Cook Children’s Health Plan partnering with Cook Children’s Physician Network and Cook Children’s Medical Center
- Driscoll Health Plan partnering with Coastal Children’s Clinic, Corpus Christi, Texas
- UnitedHealthcare partnering with the High Risk Children’s Complex Care Program at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
More information on the Pilot is available in Chapter 16.7 of the Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) Uniform Managed Care Manual.
The deadline for an MCO and health home to submit a co-designed pilot project to HHSC was Aug. 12, 2022. No new pilot projects are being accepted at this time.
Please email questions to CHIC Kids.