Got Transition aims to help youth and young adults move from pediatric to adult health care.

News & Announcements

Making the Business Case for Health Care Transition
These two business case statements offer a call to action for payers – both Medicaid and commercial insurers – to pay for pediatric-to-adult health care transition (HCT) services.

New Toolkit for Joint Telehealth Visit with Pediatric and Adult Clinicians and Transferring Young Adults
Got Transition's newest toolkit offers clinicians sample content for a joint telehealth visit to facilitate a "warm handoff" to adult care. The toolkit also includes a sample resource for transferring young adults that explains the telehealth visit.

UPDATED 2021 Transition Coding and Payment Tip Sheet Available
Got Transition and the American Academy of Pediatrics have released their 2021 Transition Coding and Payment Tip Sheet, which includes new and revised CPT codes, current Medicare fees and RVUs for the codes, updated clinical vignettes, and an insurance carrier letter that can be adapted for use to encourage payer recognition of transition-related codes.

New Article Examines Relationship Between Receipt of Transition Preparation and Components of a Well-Functioning System of Services
A new article in the Journal of Adolescent Health examines the relationships between receipt of health care transition (HCT) preparation among US youth and five other components of a well-functioning system of services (family partnership in decision-making, medical home, early/continuous screening for special health care needs [SHCN], continuous/adequate health insurance, access to community-based services).

New Report on Pilot Study of Health Care Transition in School-Based Health Centers
A new article in the Journal of School Nursing explores a pilot study of Got Transition's implementation of a structured transition process in two school-based health centers (SBHCs) in Washington, DC.

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