CMS provides a comprehensive system of care for eligible children with special health care needs. CMS believe in providing accessible, comprehensive, and family-centered care in a medical home setting. In addition, CMS have intervention, prevention, and other specialty programs that provide community based services in the natural environment and other appropriate settings.

CMS providers are an integral part of a network of local community providers, hospitals, and university medical centers around the state that provide quality care to children who need it most.

Children with special health care needs specifically need to have a primary care physician who provides routine well child services, childhood immunizations, and referrals to needed specialty care providers. CMS recognizes the family as the child’s primary caregiver and encourages parents to take an active role in their child’s health care decisions.

CMS provides a coordinated system of comprehensive, high quality health care to CMS enrolled children with special needs. Through CMS, physicians have access to nurses and social workers who provide care coordination services to those families who need assistance in obtaining the care that their child needs. Care coordinators work with the child’s physicians and family to schedule and follow-up on needed care, to identify potential state and community resources for this special population of children, and to provide the family with educational resources specific to their child’s condition.