Education/Outreach Materials

Effective January 1, 2014, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services is changing Medicaid regulations regarding which types of providers can be reimbursed for providing preventative services to Medicaid and CHIP beneficiaries. This Question & Answer document explains how this important Medicaid change will impact coverage of the community-based interventions for low-income children with asthma.

NEEF’s Diagnosis and Management of Asthma Tool Card is a convenient resource for health care providers. The 4”x6”pocket-sized reference card lists the priority recommendations from the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program’s Guidelines Implementation Panel Report for the NHLBI’s asthma guidelines (EPR-3). The tool card also provides NEEF and NHLBI asthma resources for quick references on asthma diagnosis, management and control. Provides additional resources including information on environmental triggers.

Following a brief, targeted educational intervention, pediatricians reported a significant increase in knowledge about environmental triggers of asthma and a willingness to incorporate exposure history questions and remediation recommendations in their routine practice. These improvements persisted at a 3-6 month follow-up interval compared to baseline levels. The findings were published in Clinical Pediatrics. The study was conducted by NEEF's Pediatric Asthma Faculty Champions using a standardized PowerPoint presentation based on NEEF's Environmental Management of Pediatric Asthma: Guidelines for Health Care Providers www.neefusa.org/health/asthma/asthmaguidelines. 

Improving Pediatrician Knoweldge About Environmental Triggers of Asthma--Roberts JR, Karr C, de Ybarrondo L, McCurdy LE, Freeland KD, Hulsey TC, Forman J. Clinical Pediatrics 2013 June; 52(6):523-30