HEALTH CHECK / HEALTH CHOICE
Health Check is a state program funded by Medicaid. The overall goal of Health Check is to reduce mortality and morbidity in North Carolina by encouraging Medicaid recipients, aged birth to twent-one years, to utilize Medicaid for preventive health care. Health Check has proven to be a very effective outreach tool and continues to see increases in the percentage of Medicaid eligible children receiving preventive health services.
The Health Check Program developed a system of tracking, follow-up and outreach to assist familes in obtaining medical benefits as well as other community services that their children need. The Health Check coordinator provides ongoing support that is essential to meeting children's health care needs. This process includes outreach, assessment, and coordination of services with other agencies, recruitment, service planning, follow-up, monitoring and advocacy.
Health Choice is a health insurance program for children. It provides health insurance coverage for children in families that have too much income to be eligible for Medicaid, but not enough income to afford health insurance. Applications for Health Check can be obtained from the health department, the Person County Partnership for Children office, social services, or Head Start. Eligibility for the program is determined by family size and monthly income. The program is for children up to age 19 who do not qualify for Health Check. The Health Check coordinator devotes a percentage of their time on a monthly basis to promotiing Health Choice within the community.
Health Check and Health Choice can pay for all or part of a child's health care, including: checkups, shots, sick visits, hearing and vision care, lab tests, medicines, dental care, specialists, hospital care, counseling, surgery and therapies.