The medical home may act as an advocate in many different roles. The most common type of advocacy will be one-on-one with a family helping them obtain needed services or funding for their child. The most common advocacy activities the medical home may perform are writing letters of medical necessity and helping families appeal funding denials.
Writing Letters of Medical Necessity: See Request for a Letter of Medical Necessity Form (Portal) ( 27 KB), A Request for a Letter of Medical Necessity ( 33 KB), Medical Home Newsletter, Volume I, Issue I ( 71 KB), and Appealing Funding Denials.
Working With the Larger System: The medical home will be most effective if they understand other systems (e.g., public school, Medicaid, private insurers, and state agencies). See Resources below for state-specific organizations.
Impacting the Community: The medical home may choose to take on advocacy roles through outreach, education, or legislative lobbying. [O'Brien: 1997].
Official U.S. government site for Medicaid services.
See all Community Advocacy Agencies services providers (1) in our database.
We currently have no nationwide Departments of Health, State service providers listed; search our Services database for related services or, if relevant for you, a state link above.
We currently have no nationwide State Advocacy Agencies service providers listed; search our Services database for related services or, if relevant for you, a state link above.
O'Brien S, Parker S, Greenberg J, Zuckerman B.
Putting children first: the pediatrician as advocate.
Defines the process of advocating for health care funding and gives specific examples of effective and ineffective letters for Medicaid funding. It also gives information on how to become active in community advocacy and the legislative process.