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promoting health for AYA males
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April 17, 2014
CENTER FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES EXPANDS MALE HEALTH SERVICES UNDER THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT
Yesterday, April 16, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued a clarification of eligibility rules for family planning services under the Affordable Care Act that directly impacts the services that are provided to Medicaid eligible males under the ACA's state Medicaid expansion.
Family planning services that are provided by states that participate in the ACA Medicaid expansion program are eligible for a 90% reimbursement rate for those services. Under the previous interpretation of the ACA, family planning services did not include contraceptive or STI counseling for males unless they were part of follow up to a family planning visit. Under the new clarification Medicare will reimburse at the 90% level under the ACA for male contraceptive and STI counseling services, regardless of whether they are provided as "follow up" to a family planning visit.
More information on this clarification can be found here.
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The Partnership for Male Youth has emerged from the health related work of The Boys Initiative, a young nonprofit organization. In late 2012 the Initiative began researching the state of health care for adolescent and young adult (AYA) males, with an eye toward developing solutions to improve their health. After an extensive literature search and discussions with over 100 individuals from a range of medical disciplines, and under the guidance of a multidisciplinary medical advisory board, the Initiative developed a groundbreaking resource for health care providers, which it released in January 2014: the Health Provider Toolkit for Adolescent and Young Adult Males. The Toolkit is an unprecedented health care resource and will serve as the foundation for other efforts to enhance health, and health care delivery, for AYA males.
With the release of the Toolkit The Boys Initiative has launched The Partnership for Male Youth. The Partnership is a collaborative effort to disseminate and improve upon the Toolkit while developing provider, patient and parent education initiatives designed to enhance provider and parent knowledge and skills while engaging AYA males in their own health care.
The Partnership's members will be those organizations that participated in the development of the Toolkit, as well as others that have an interest in the promotion of AYA male health.
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