Typically, your child’s doctor will ask you to bring in your child for regular wellness visits. Children enrolled in Go365 for Humana Healthy Horizons® can earn rewards for having well-child visits.
Well-being visits
Well-being visits
Children should see their doctors regularly from birth through age 20, to make sure they are and stay healthy.1 These visits typically occur at birth and when your child is:
Newborn 3–5 days old for newborns discharged less than 48 hours after delivery 1 month old 2 months old 4 months old 6 months old 9 months old 12 months old 15 months old 18 months old 24 months old 30 months old - Once every year for ages 3–20
These visits help your child’s doctor detect, diagnose, and treat health problems as early as possible.
Well-being visits can include:
- Preventive and comprehensive services
- Physical exams
- Growth measurements
- Immunizations and vaccines
- Vision and hearing screenings
- Dental screenings
- Other important tests and services
- Referrals for diagnosis and treatment, if necessary
Child vaccination
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), “most parents vaccinate their children … protecting them from 14 potentially serious diseases before their second birthday. Vaccinating children on time protects them and anyone around them with a weakened immune system.”2
Vaccines are part of child well visits. Vaccines are free for Medicaid recipients 20 years and younger in Kentucky. Talk to your doctor about what vaccines your child needs depending on his or her age.
Things change—and the medicine a child takes may need to change, too
During a well visit, a doctor will ask:
- About any medicine that a child takes
- Why the child takes the medicine
- If the child responds well or not to the medicine
You and your child’s doctor will decide together when your child should start or stop taking a specific medicine. This is called deprescribing.
To help make sure your child takes the right medicine at the right time:
- Talk to your child’s doctor
- Keep track of your child’s medicine
- Make sure your child takes medicine as prescribed
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Remember to:
- Make and keep appointments with your child’s doctor when your child is well, not just when your child is sick
- Talk to your child’s doctor about any concerns you have
Be sure to call your child’s doctor today to set up the next well-being visit.
Go365 for Humana Healthy Horizons
Children who have well visits can earn rewards through Go365 for Humana Healthy Horizons®. This is our wellness program that offers you opportunities for earning rewards for taking health actions.
- “Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment,” Medicaid.gov, last accessed August 17, 2022,
.https://www.medicaid.gov/medicaid/benefits/early-and-periodic-screening-diagnostic-and-treatment/index.html - “Reasons to Follow CDC’s Recommended Immunization Schedule,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, last accessed August 17, 2022,
.https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/parents/schedules/reasons-follow-schedule.html
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