FW: Molina Healthcare - Lead Testing Initiative
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- Nancy Peeler
Good morning, Monica and Kim - | wasn't sure who to share this with, thought | would start with you, [hada
conversation with Dana Brown from Molina after the MCH meeting, and we talked about their upcoming health fairs in
Flint, and the fact that they didn’t have a LeadCare machine to use at those health fairs. if you are not familiar with it,
LeadCare is a point of service machine that can analyze a capillary blood sarnple for lead, you have the result within
about 3 minutes. the capillary is high, then it is still necessary to get a venous sample to confirm the result. But if the
capillary is low, then typically no further testing is needed at that time point.
Dana is going to follow-up with Magellan, as she thought there may be some practices that could meet the testing
volurne to get a free machine. | wonder Hf tt would be helpful to share the Magellan information with other health plans,
ofr possibly even invite the rep to the next MCH meeting, or hast a conference call? Not sure what your usual approach
is, but Lat least wanted to get this information inte your hands, see what you think.
Nancy