Infant and Early Childhood Behavioral Health Services

Information on Infant and Early Childhood Behavioral Health Services, including Billing Guide for Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Services: Dyadic Models, Billing Guide for Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Services: Prevention Direct Services, Medicaid Funded Behavioral Health Services, Ages 0-6, and DC: 0-5 Crosswalk & Case Studies. 

IECMH EBP Billing Guide Dyadic Models

Dyadic treatment is family therapy. These treatment models include both the child and their caregiver(s), called the dyad, and their focus is strengthening the caregiver-child relationship. Dyadic models achieve this by improving positive parenting skills through observation, coaching and treatment. This guide is intended to support behavioral health practitioners in billing for services when providing dyadic models of therapy to young children and their families. It describes what dyadic models are, the services that make up dyadic models of therapy and billing codes available for these services.

Medicaid Funded Behavioral Health Services, Ages 0-6

This document was developed by request from the Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Task Force. The table provides Medicaid program name, service type(s), description, and policy location for all children's mental health services available through Medicaid reimbursement.

DC:0-5 Crosswalk & Case Studies

The DC:0-5 is a diagnostic classification manual for mental health and developmental disorders of infancy and early childhood. The manual supports clinicians in the diagnosis of these disorders in young children through a systematic and multiaxial approach to diagnosis. DCH recognizes the DC:0-5 crosswalk and information can be found here . 

IECMH Billing Guide Prevention Services

This document is part of the Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health (IECMH) Toolkit for behavioral health practitioners. It was developed by the Georgia IECHM Taskforce’s Policy and Finance Workgroup to support the delivery of IECMH services in the state. Questions about this document or the IECHM Toolkit can be directed to the Georgia Association for Infant Mental Health (GA-AIMH) at [email protected].