RAMP has developed a wide range of resources to help asthma home visiting programs as well as managed care plans to better understand and implement Medi-Cal’s asthma home visiting policies, including:
- Asthma Preventive Services factsheet – all the key policy details in one place (update coming soon!)
- Asthma Remediation factsheet – all the key policy details, including updates made by DHCS in early 2025 (update coming soon!)
- Quick Guide: Workflow for Updated Guidance for Asthma Preventive Services and Asthma Remediation – a step-by-step guide for programs interested in implementing the services (coming soon!)
- Promising Practices for AR/APS Implementation – an evolving compilation of promising practices gathered from the field
- Medi-Cal’s Asthma Policies: Activities, Codes, and Funding – tips for understanding codes and leveraging funding opportunities for asthma home visiting programs
- Asthma Home Visiting Services: Referring Your Medi-Cal Patients – a flyer to share with physicians and other medical professionals
- Supplies for Asthma Remediation – examples of specific supplies that may help programs make selections
We can also develop tools in response to specific needs your organization may have. For example, we’ve developed draft scripts for client outreach, a care plan template, asthma home visitor job descriptions, and tools for estimating the actual cost of providing services. If there’s a tool your program needs, ask us!
Our technical assistance, peer learning, and ongoing advocacy
In addition to the above resources, RAMP continues to offer free technical assistance as well as peer learning opportunities for asthma home visiting programs, managed care plans, and others interested in advancing asthma home visiting services. Please see our description of TA services for more information.
We also continue to engage our partners about additional policy changes needed for both Asthma Remediation and Asthma Preventive Services. We then work with staff at the Department of Health Care Services to ensure the policies are as effective as possible.
Background on Medi-Cal’s asthma home visiting policies
In 2022, Medi-Cal – California’s Medicaid system – adopted two nationally-leading policies to increase access to asthma home visiting services for low-income Californians with poorly controlled asthma. Since then, RAMP has shifted our focus to ensuring that the policies are implemented as effectively as possible.
The Asthma Preventive Services benefit (update coming soon!) covers clinic- and home-based asthma self-management education and in-home environmental trigger assessments provided by non-licensed professionals such as Community Health Workers, promotoras, and other individuals meeting specified qualifications.
Asthma Remediation (update coming soon!) under Community Supports allows Medi-Cal managed care plans (MCPs) to use Medicaid funding to pay for home trigger remediation for people with poorly controlled asthma.
Do you have questions or would you like to learn more? Contact us!