Texas Health Steps Anticipatory Guidance Tools and Resources
Texas Health Steps Periodicity Schedule
Texas Health Steps checkups must include all required components listed on the Texas Health Steps Periodicity Schedule in order to be complete and reimbursable. Download the current version of the Texas Health Steps Periodicity Schedule to make sure you cover all required components.
Texas Health Steps
Anticipatory Guidance Provider Guide
The Texas Health Steps Anticipatory Guidance Provider Guide is a helpful flip chart designed to be used during medical checkups to review age-appropriate topics, elicit parent and patient concerns and guide discussion of individualized anticipatory guidance. The Guide can be downloaded from the Texas Health Steps Medical Providers web page.
Texas Health Steps Medicaid Courses and Resources
Texas Health Steps offers a suite of free online courses and resources to assist Texas Health Steps providers and staff members. Bookmark this landing page and share it with your staff for easy access to helpful educational and informational tools tailored to the needs of Texas Health Steps providers.
The site includes free CE courses as well as shorter courses and tutorials.
Documenting Anticipatory Guidance
Texas Health Steps requires that all federal- and state-mandated checkup components be documented in the medical record for the checkup to be considered complete and to qualify for provider reimbursement. Any checkup component that is not completed must be noted in the medical record, along with the reason it was not completed and a plan to complete it. The medical record must also contain documentation of all screening tools used, screening results and referrals.
Texas Health Steps Child Health Clinical Record Forms are optional but are recommended to assist providers with documentation of all required checkup components. The back side of each form includes a list of typical age-appropriate health education topics, and the front includes a space to note which general topics are addressed. The health forms can be downloaded from the Texas Health Steps Catalog.
Providers should be aware that Texas Health Steps checkups are subject to retrospective review and recoupment if the medical record does not include all required documentation.
References used in this course
- Lawton, L. Gregory. Medscape. Pediatrics by the Numbers: Putting Our Time Where It Works Best. June 4, 2018.
- Texas Medicaid and Healthcare Partnership. Texas Medicaid Provider Procedures Manual.