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Texas Health Steps
Expanding Client Awareness of Existing
Health and Dental Services
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Checkups and a Whole Lot More!
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How can my child get a Texas Health Steps check-up?
What can my child get from Texas Health Steps?
When is the right time for a Texas Health Steps
check-up?
Where can my child get a Texas Health Steps check-up?
Who can get Texas Health Steps services?
Why are Texas Health Steps check-ups important?
- Medical and dental
checkups and treatment at no cost to you.
- Medical checkups include vision and hearing screenings.
- Lab tests and shots, if needed, at no cost to you.
- Case management
for children with special health care needs.
- New eye glasses and repair or replacement if lost or broken.
- Hearing aids and repair or replacement through the
Program for Amplification for Children of Texas.
- Prescriptions to help your child stay well or get well when they
are sick.
- Check your Medicaid Identification Form (Med ID) each month when
it comes in the mail. It shows when your child is due for medical and
dental checkups and other screenings.
- What does it mean if nothing appears under your child's name on the
Med ID form? It means it is not time for a checkup, but you can still
take your child to doctors, nurses, or dentists if they are sick or
in pain and Medicaid will pay for the visit and any medically necessary
care.
- Checkup ages for:
- Babies and toddlers - 1-2 weeks, 2 months, 4 months, 6 months,
9 months, 12 months, 15 months, 18 months, and 2, 3, 4, and 5 years.
- Older children - 6, 8, and 10 years.
- Preteens, teens, and young adults - 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17,
18, 19, and 20 years.
Doctors, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses, and dentists
give Texas Health Steps check-ups in clinics, private offices, and other
places. For children with special health care needs, case managers (nurses
or social workers) may visit clients at home to plan for special health
care services. For more information about these services, visit the Children
With Special Health Care Needs or the Case
Management for Children and Pregnant Women web sites.
Infants, children, teens, and young adults
to their 21st birthday who are enrolled in Medicaid can get Texas
Health Steps services.
- Checkups find health problems when they are small even when
your child feels okay.
- Checkups prevent health problems that make it hard for your
child to grow and learn.
- Checkups help your child have a healthy smile.
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