{"id":98,"date":"2025-02-27T20:45:52","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T20:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.westonpediatrics.org\/about\/?p=98"},"modified":"2025-02-27T20:45:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T20:45:52","slug":"weston-pediatrics-now-offers-behavioral-health-wellness-examinations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westonpediatrics.org\/about\/2025\/02\/27\/weston-pediatrics-now-offers-behavioral-health-wellness-examinations\/","title":{"rendered":"Weston Pediatrics Now Offers Behavioral Health Wellness Examinations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Effective April 1, 2024<\/b>, Massachusetts insurance companies are required to cover an annual mental health wellness exam with the goal to improve patient access to mental and behavioral health care. Massachusetts is the second state in the nation to offer this exam! A behavioral health wellness exam\u00a0<strong>is in addition to your annual well child exam<\/strong>\u00a0and focuses on the emotional well-being and development of pediatric patients of all ages. For example, an adolescent behavioral health exam may focus on the stress of school, extracurricular activities, and social media pressures.\u00a0A behavioral health exam for a younger child may focus on social and developmental progress.To take advantage of this new service, please call our office.\u00a0For patients with out of state insurance, we encourage you to call your insurance company to determine if this is a covered service and\/or if there is any out-of-pocket expense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Effective April 1, 2024, Massachusetts insurance companies are required to cover an annual mental health wellness exam with the goal to improve patient access to mental and behavioral health care. Massachusetts is the second state in the nation to offer this exam! A behavioral health wellness exam\u00a0is in addition to your annual well child exam\u00a0and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westonpediatrics.org\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westonpediatrics.org\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westonpediatrics.org\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westonpediatrics.org\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westonpediatrics.org\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.westonpediatrics.org\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99,"href":"https:\/\/www.westonpediatrics.org\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/99"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westonpediatrics.org\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westonpediatrics.org\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westonpediatrics.org\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}