NICHQ, the National Initiative for Children’s Healthcare Quality, and the teams from NICHQ’s Learning Collaborative Healthy Care for Healthy Kids, a Collaborative to Prevent, Identify and Manage Childhood Overweight, sponsored by Blue Cross Blue Shield MA, have developed a toolkit to assist clinicians in providing quality care for children who are at risk for overweight, or overweight. This toolkit provides basics tools for primary care practice teams to deliver coordinated, integrated, and multidisciplinary services to both prevent overweight and improve care for children who are already overweight or at risk for overweight.
Encounter Documentation Tool
Key elements to include in an Encounter Form
NICHQ's Obesity Patient Registry
An excell based patient registry to help practices/cinics identify and manage patients who are overweight or at risk for overweight. This registry can be used for all ages.
Coding and Billing Tools
Coding and Fact Sheet for Primary Care Pediatricians
This Coding Fact Sheet will provides a guide to coding for obesity-related health care services.
Pediatric Coding Companion
Checklist for compliant coding and billing in your practice.
Levels of Billing: Coding and Reimbursment for Children with Abnormal Weight Gain in Primary Care
Coding and reimbursment for children with abnormal weight gain in primary care.
Patient Education Tools
Serving Portion by Age
Food portion sizes by age and gender for Grains, Vegetables, Fruits, Dairy and Protein.
Drink Compairison Handout
A way to visually display how mush sugar is contained in different varities of drinks. It can also be used as a handout.
Food Portions Exercise
This Tool is used to show appropriate portion size in comparison to the child’s "usual" portion consumed.
*Healthy Care for Healthy Kids Learning Collaborative (A Partnership of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts and NICHQ)
