For Health Care Professionals
Together with health care providers like you, the Ladies First program makes life-saving cancer and cardiovascular disease risk factor screening accessible to Vermont women with limited income. Below is a list of key information and resources for health care professionals. Additional information is available for patients and referring physicians.
Contact Us
Medical service providers can contact Ladies First for information or assistance, including questions about provider enrollment, training, the Resource Manual, and covered services. For billing questions or support, please see Ladies First Billing information below.
- Provider Support Line
800-510-2282
- Confidential Fax
802-657-4208
Ladies First Billing - Electronic Data Systems (EDS)
Billing Support and Information
- Call Billing Support (Electronic Data Systems)
800-925-1706
802-878-7871
Ladies First Billing Numbers
- Provider Billing Numbers
Vermont Medicaid Portal (Scroll down to "Ladies First")
Fee Codes
2009
- Fee Schedule
Includes CPT, ICD-9-CM, and Hospital Revenue Codes
2008
- ICD-9
- CPT Codes and Schedule of Fees
- Revenue Codes (hospitals only)
2007
- ICD-9
- CPT Codes and Schedule of Fees
- Revenue Codes (hospitals only)
2006
- ICD-9
- CPT Codes and Schedule of Fees
- Revenue Codes (hospitals only)
Provider Resources, Forms, and Supplies
Ladies First Resource Manual
Includes program descriptions, billing information, covered services, and Ladies First clinical screening protocols.
Covered Services
Summary chart of the screening, diagnostic, and treatment referrals reimbursed as covered services by the Ladies First program.
Screening Protocols and Treatment Algorithms
Includes printable versions of the Ladies First clinical screening protocols, and links to independently published clinical algorithms for treatment.
Forms and Supplies
Includes essential forms ready to print and photocopy.
Program News and Updates
Here you can subscribe to the free Ladies First Provider Newsgram and download previously published Newsgrams.
Patient Information
Patient information published by the Ladies First program is available here, including: A Healthier You, a mini-magazine, and Ladies First member stories in print and video versions.
National Cancer Institute - Quality Tools
- Cervical Cancer (PDQ®): Prevention (Health Professional Version)
- Cervical Cancer (PDQ®): Prevention (Patient Version)
- Human Papillomaviruses and Cancer: Questions and Answers
- Pap Tests and Cervical Health: A Healthy Habit for You
- The Pap Test: Questions and Answers
Continuing Medical Education Credit Opportunities
Breast and Cervical Cancer
The CDC has teamed with Medscape™ from WebMD™ to develop an online continuing medical education (CME) program called Follow Up of Abnormal Clinical and Imaging Findings of the Breast: Five Self-Study Modules for Primary Care Clinicians. The five self-directed, interactive training modules are designed to educate clinicians on providing appropriate and timely care to women with early signs of breast cancer, and to train physicians on the latest evidence, protocols, and guidelines around detecting breast cancer.
Breast and Cervical Cancer Detection Modules
The 5 evidence-based web modules can be viewed at no-cost or can be taken for CME or nursing CE at $15 per module. The modules include:
- breast cancer: epi and pathogenesis
- breast cancer: screening
- reast cancer: managing abnormal screens
- cervical cancer: epi and screening
- cervical cancer: managing abnormal screens
Cervical CME’S
Cultural Competency for Health Care Providers Manual
This resource was designed for health care providers to support the promotion of cultural competency in their practice. The goals of the manual:
- To provide a comprehensive, yet easily understood definition of cultural competency.
- To raise awareness of the increasing diversity in Vermont and the new populations joining our communities.
- To offer resources to help providers become better acquainted with different populations.
- To help providers use the information in this manual to comfortably assess patients and provide the best care possible.
- To assist providers with their own sense of understanding by offering links to self-assessment tools and continuing education opportunities.
Training on Understanding Cultural and Psychosocial Barriers to Pap Testing (FREE!)
The American Social Health Association (ASHA), in cooperation with the American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology (ASCCP) developed the training, Understanding Cultural and Psychosocial Barriers to Pap Testing. This course seeks to facilitate increased Pap testing and follow-up rates by addressing cultural health beliefs and barriers and how they affect Pap testing use.
Advances In Cervical Cancer Prevention
Association of Reproductive Health Professionals published clinical proceedings.In recognition of Cervical Cancer Awareness Month, the Association of Reproductive Health Professionals (ARHP), a Washington, DC-based professional education organization, is offering continuing medical education (CME) credits.
ASCCP and ASHA are offering six additional training courses:
- The Natural History and Epidemiology of HPV
- Follow-up After an Abnormal Pap: Addressing Barriers
- The ASCCP Guidelines to Managing AGC
- The ASCCP Guidelines to Managing ASC
- Colposcopy of High Grade Lesions
- Immune Response to HPV
Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factor CME’s
Continuing Education Module: Assessment and Management of Overweight and Obesity in Adults
Cardiovascular Disease Resource
The Heart Truth for Women: A Speaker’s Kit
The Heart Truth for Women: A Speaker’s Kit is easy to use and supplies all you need to hold a 1-hour session on heart disease—instructions, overheads, handouts, responses to likely questions, and a compelling video, which features women telling their own stories about how heart disease changed their lives.