Benefits and Services

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What We Are About

We get you ready to deliver children’s health services which means:

  • Expanding services you already have

  • Creating new services to meet critical needs

  • Working with new providers of existing services or

  • Working with new payors of services such as managed care organizations, Medicaid, or insurance companies

It all starts with the roadmap to get you where you want to go. To meet your challenges, we guide you as you make your own roadmap. We help you think in new ways about students education and healthcare.

Benefits

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We share your passion to improve children’s physical and behavioral health. We work with you to:

  • Expand and increase access for school-based health services

  • Improve reimbursement for school-based health services

  • Improve accountability and documentation

  • Improve collaboration and understanding between partners

Who Benefits From Our Services

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Many organizations work with children’s healthcare and benefit from our services including:

  • Schools and school districts

  • State agencies of education, Medicaid and healthcare

  • Managed Care Organizations

  • Insurance companies

  • Nonprofits

  • Advocacy groups

  • School-based health centers

  • Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs)

  • Private providers

  • Universities and colleges

  • Hospitals

  • Other community providers

Our Services

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What are the needs of the children you serve? We work with you to target those needs and shape how your organization meets them. Our team helps you set goals and objectives that produce policies and action plans to benefit the whole child. This includes planning, directing, and organizing in every area of child health service delivery from executive management to financial issues to human resources and beyond.

We help all stakeholders work together, aligning expectations and getting results within an agreed upon timeline.

  • Setting up a billing protocol

  • Choosing and working with a billing company

  • Preparing for the best experience in working with managed care

  • Understanding Managed Care Organizations

  • Provider networks 

  • Utilization and care management

  • Medical records

  • Claims management

  • Third Party Liability

  • Developing effective methods for working with community healthcare partners

  • Strategic planning for grant writing

  • Expanding services through telemedicine or telehealth

Our services include: 

  • Strategic planning 

  • Task force development

  • Building collaborative relationships

  • Needs assessment

  • Identifying new services

  • Developing State Plan Amendments

  • Resource development

  • Identifying staffing needs

  • Budgeting for new services

  • Developing contractual relationships

  • Understanding documentation requirements

  • Implementing training and technical assistance

  • Implementing a quality assurance process

  • Tracking revenue and data analysis

  • Identifying current administration leaders’ needs

 
 

Our Team

 
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Shelley McGeorge, PhD MPA, LPC/S, LMFT and Principal

Shelley is a Principal for The Child Health Readiness Group. She has more than 30 years of experience in the fields of children’s services, education, addiction, and mental health services and has functioned in a variety of managerial, planning, clinical and statewide leadership positions. She previously directed the Office of Medicaid Services for the SC Department of Education providing a system of quality assurance, training, technical assistance, and program development for ten approved Medicaid services to South Carolina school districts including Telehealth, MCO Behavioral Health and Nursing.

Valeria Williams

Valeria Williams, Principal

Valeria a Principal for The Child Health Readiness Group, has more than twenty years of demonstrated success and proven expertise in Medicaid health policy development, reimbursement and implementation of school-based Medicaid services. She holds a BS degree from the University of South Carolina.

 
 

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