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Help children become healthier through integrated care

As a healthcare provider, your partnership is essential to improving the health and wellbeing of children in our community. As a NJ InCK healthcare partner, you’ll get a more complete picture of the needs of your patients when families complete the NJ InCK HealthStory for their children. The goal of NJ InCK is to help providers, like you, form stronger relationships with families and community partners and work together towards better health outcomes for all children in your community.

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What is NJ InCK?

NJ InCK (pronounced “New Jersey Ink”) is a new program available to all NJ FamilyCare beneficiaries living in Monmouth and Ocean counties aged birth through 20. It is a cross-sector collaborative model that focuses on prevention, early identification, and treatment of priority health concerns like behavioral health challenges, physical health needs, and social issues. For patients with the highest need, NJ InCK supports your practice by providing advanced case management teams and cutting-edge technology.

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Pediatric providers whose patients share their NJ InCK HealthStory will have a more complete picture of their families health and wellbeing during well-child visits.  The NJ InCK HealthStory follows the guidelines of Bright Futures.

Why participate in NJ InCK

Provide better care.

NJ InCK is an innovative model of integrated care designed to improve the health and wellbeing of children and youth, their families, and communities by making access to the right care easier.

Be a stronger partner to families.

Engage with families and educate them so they can take charge of their child’s care in collaboration with healthcare and community partners.

Get a complete picture of your patients’ needs.

Through a single, comprehensive, age-specific assessment, the NJ InCK HealthStory, you’ll get a thorough understanding of your patients’ health and social needs so you can deliver better care.

Improve care coordination.

The model simplifies accessing and scheduling specialized medical services, connecting to community-based service providers and services, and supports closed-loop referrals.

Access more resources for your practice.

NJ InCK Care Managers help with intake, care plan development, and referrals.

Providers who discuss a child’s NJ InCK HealthStory with the family during a visit and document their care plan may receive reimbursement for a supplemental payment tied to the interpretation of the NJ InCK HealthStory. For more information, please see the 2022 Medicaid Newsletter entitled “New Jersey Integrated Care for Kids Services.”

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Many of your families and patients will learn about NJ InCK from you. You can encourage them to participate by introducing the NJ InCK HealthStory.

Learn more about the NJ InCK HealthStory

Resources for Healthcare Partners

InCK Fact Sheet

An overview of the InCK Model from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation.

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InCK Model FAQs

Frequently Asked Questions about the Integrated Care for Kids (InCK) Model

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InCK Screening Tool Webinar

An overview of the NJ InCK tools for developmental and socio-emotional assessment.

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FAQs for Healthcare Providers

When people are engaged in their own care, their overall health and wellbeing are better. NJ InCK is structured to help family and healthcare partners develop a care plan that is fine-tuned to their needs and preferences. The NJ InCK HealthStory asks about various aspects of a child’s health, including social determinants and service utilization, giving providers a fuller picture about issues and needs that can help providers develop a more effective care plan for their patients.

Your practice may be eligible to receive payments specific to NJ InCk services. Specifically, providers who discuss a child’s NJ InCK HealthStory with the family during a visit and document their care plan can receive reimbursement for a supplemental payment tied to the interpretation of the NJ InCK HealthStory. For more information on the new NJ InCK reimbursable service, please see the 2022 Medicaid Newsletter entitled “New Jersey Integrated Care for Kids Services”. Please visit http://njmmis.com and visit the “Recent Newsletters” or “Newsletters & Alerts” from the menu of options on the left.

NJ InCK also provides you with additional support by automatically identifying your eligible patients, providing an online way for your patients to complete their NJ InCK HealthStory, providing care integration support for patients with complex health and social needs, and facilitation of information-sharing and closed-loop referrals between program partners.

Patient families will automatically receive a request to complete their NJ InCK HealthStory prior to their child’s birthday. The completed NJ InCK HealthStory, along with a preliminary service integration level, will be shared with you.

Your patients must be NJ FamilyCare beneficiaries living in Monmouth and Ocean counties aged birth through 20 to join NJ InCK. Your patients must complete the NJ InCK HealthStory to determine if they are eligible for NJ InCK resources and services. We recommend that you encourage your patients to take the NJ InCK HealthStory to determine which services they may have access to.

Being a part of NJ InCK does not change any of the child’s NJ FamilyCare services. However, the child is also eligible to participate in NJ InCK as an added service.

Your patients may be able to access additional care coordination, specialty, behavioral health, and social services in their community.

If you have questions about administering the NJ InCK HealthStory, please contact us.

Please contact us to learn more about NJ InCK.

The earliest signs of risk factors for children may present outside of clinical settings—such as in schools or at home—and may be noticed first by teachers, social workers, or child welfare, rather than by primary care providers. A cross-sector approach enables an effective preventive and early-intervention approach to help children, particularly those with complex healthcare and social needs, get the range of services they need.