The program is designed to offer expanded medically related education services to teens. The program curricula are designed to teach disease and disability prevention and to prolong life and promote physical and mental health. These classes go beyond the limited service and information offered under existing Medicaid programs. Physicians or other licensed practitioners of the healing arts who present detailed adolescent pregnancy material provide these services. The pregnancy prevention services include a series of classes teaching male and female adolescents about decision-making skills and the consequences of unintended pregnancies.
Abstinence is presented as the preferred method of choice.
Currently there are approximately 16 providers of adolescent pregnancy prevention services. These include hospitals, county health departments, FQHCs, and private organizations. This nationally sponsored program offers free vaccines to family and general practitioners, pediatricians, hospital nurseries, emergency rooms, and other qualified providers for children aged 18 years and under who are Medicaid enrolled, have no health insurance, or are American Indian or Alaskan Native. Free vaccines are also available to children who do not have health insurance for immunizations, if they obtain vaccines from a federally qualified health center or rural health clinic. When multiple injections are given on the same day, Medicaid will reimburse for each injection.