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— 1� Cpl %0'vow Qualified providers applying for a maternity care coordination grant must provide the following information on DEHRR Form T-659 (copy attached): 1. A county estimate of the annual number of pregnant Medicaid recipients who are not receiving maternity care coordination services. 2. An estimate of the additional number of Medicaid recipients (public and private patients) who will be served each year. 3. The amount of funding requested. 4. The number of full -time and/or part --time maternity care coordinators who will be employed. District health departments must complete a MHM T -659 for each county for which funding is being requested. A special statistical report (Attachment II) is enclosed to help local agencies estimate the number of Medicaid recipients who are not receiving care coordinatior services. It provides data by on the number of deliveries paid for by the Medicaid Program in FY 1989 -90. The report also provides the following information: (1) The number of Medicaid deliveries to women who did not receive MCC services as indicated by "No CARE COORDM." (2) The number of Medicaid deliveries to women who received MCC sery . from the local health department as indicated by "Div OF HEALTH SE." (3) The number of Medicaid deliveries to women who received MCC sexvi from a conumxnity heal_ center as indicated by the name of the agency (e.g. MAXTCH MEDICAL, HOONE TRAIL, SLUE R=, etc.). Please note that the number of Medicaid deliveries paid for in Fiscal Year 1989 -9 does not include those pregnant women who will be added to the Medicaid Program a a result of eligibility increasing to 185% of poverty. Moreover, expanded eligibility for pregnant women below 150% of poverty was in effect for only sax months of FY 1989 -90, and expanded eligibility for pregnant teenagers was in effect for only three months: It is suggested that applicant agencies increase the number of Medicaid deliveries in FY 1989 -90 by 25 percent as a guide for estimating the number of pregnant women who will be eligible for care coordinatic services under these expm%W coverages In determining the number of positions (full -time equivalents) and the amount of funding needed to serve a given n=ber of additional clients, the Division of Maternal and Cud Health requests that applicant agencies use the following- - formula: