Well-being visits
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.
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.
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:
These visits help your child’s doctor detect, diagnose, and treat health problems as early as possible.
Well-being visits can include:
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:
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:
Need help finding a doctor for your child? Use our online Find a Doctor service. You also can call us at 800-444-9137 (TTY: 711).
Remember to:
Be sure to call your child’s doctor today to set up the next well-being visit.
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.