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Physician's Guide to Medicine - Children with Special Healthcare Needs
What services are available to children with special health
care needs?
Who is entitled to receive special health care services?
What services are provided?
What services are available to children with special
health care needs?
Children With Special Health Care Needs (formerly Crippled Childrenīs Service)
is a bureau of the Missouri Department of Health designated to administer a
program of service to children with special health care needs. The purpose of
the service is to develop, extend and improve services for locating such
children, especially in rural areas, and for providing medical, surgical,
corrective and other services and care and facilities for diagnosis,
hospitalization, and aftercare.
Such children receive needed services at no charge, or on an ability-to-pay
basis. Only physicians approved by the service may provide treatment, and
provider compensation is limited to an allowable amount fixed by the Bureau
administrator. Further inquiries about the service should be directed to the
Provider Relations Unit at (573)751-6246.
Who is entitled to receive special health care services?
Any child under twenty-one years of age residing in the State of Missouri who
Has a special health care condition;
Is in need of services because of his or her condition;
Whose physician has certified that he or she can benefit from such services; and
Is financially unable to pay for part or all of the needed services.
What services are provided?
"Services" include medical, surgical, corrective, diagnostic, hospitalization,
and related services, including aftercare, and all things reasonably incident
and necessary to make the service available to the child.
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