Preventive Health Assistance or PHA, is a benefit for Medicaid participants.  The Behavioral PHA provides opportunities designed to help you and your family live a healthy lifestyle.  The Wellness PHA rewards parents for keeping their children up to date on well child checks and immunizations.

 

Behavioral PHA – Weight Management

To qualify for this benefit you must complete a Health Questionnaire and return it to the Department.  The Questionnaire must indicate that you or your child over the age of five:

 

·         Have a Body Mass Index (BMI) in the obese range and

·         Want to improve health through weight management.

 

You earn points by signing up to participate in monitored weight management activities.  You may also qualify for this benefit if you are significantly underweight. 

 

Weight Management participants receive a voucher to help pay for their weight management program fees at a participating vendor.

 

Behavioral PHA – Tobacco Cessation

To qualify for this benefit you must complete a Health Questionnaire and return it to the Department.  The Questionnaire must indicate that you or your child: 

 

·         Want to quit using tobacco

 

You earn points by signing up to participate in tobacco cessation activities.

 

Tobacco Cessation participants receive a voucher to help pay for tobacco cessation products at a participating vendor.

 

You can trade them in (one point = $1) for vouchers that can be used at businesses and organizations that accept PHA vouchers.

 

 

Wellness PHA – If you pay a monthly premium ($10 or $15) for your child’s Medicaid coverage, your child is eligible for the Wellness PHA benefit.  You can earn 30 points every 90 days for keeping your child’s well-child checks and immunizations current.  One point = $1. The points will be used to help pay your Medicaid premiums. Wellness PHA points can’t be exchanged for vouchers.

 

For more information about PHA, please call us toll free at: (877) 364-1843 or email us at: medicaidphaprogram@dhw.idaho.gov

 

Our address is:

Department of Health & Welfare, Division of Medicaid

Attn:  PHA

3232 Elder Street

Boise, Idaho 83705