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WMHP Mission: Ensure Nebraska women and men have access to cancer
screening and prevention resources.
WMHP Vision: Nebraska Women and Men Living Healthy and Cancer Free Lives
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WMHP QUICK READS
Provider Updates, Highlights, & Prevention Insights
Issue 14: October 2026
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What is Every Woman Matters?
Every Woman Matters (EWM) is a federally funded program that pays for office visits associated with Pap tests, pelvic exams, clinical breast exams and lab fees for women aged 25-64. Age-appropriate mammography is covered as well as diagnostic tests. EWM provides screening and diagnostic tests, public education, and quality assurance activities. Find out more...
This October 2026, EWM celebrates 35 years of serving Nebraska women. Over the past three and a half decades, the program has improved and expanded access to lifesaving preventive health screenings for women, expanding breast and cervical cancer screenings to offer comprehensive preventive services, including cardiovascular, diabetes and colon cancer screenings. Read more....
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October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Encourage your patients to get their mammograms. If you have patients that can't afford to have their mammogram or don't have insurance to cover the costs of the mammogram, encourage them to enroll in Every Woman Matters.
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2026-2027 WMHP Fee Schedule
July 1, 2026 there were new fee schedules made available to clinics. Click here to see the WMHP 2026-2027 Fee Schedule available for providers to utilize when billing WMHP. They are effective July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2027.
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2026-2027 Income Guidelines
July 1, 2026 new income guidelines were implemented. Click here to see the Income Eligibility Guidelines available for enrollment into the Every Woman Matters and Nebraska Colon Cancer Screening Programs. They are effective July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2027.
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Does Your Clinic Need Training?
If you are interested in finding out more about program training for your clinic (to review processes, procedures, and policies), please contact us !
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Reminder: Utilize the WMHP Website for New Forms
Typically every year in July the WMHP reviews and updates all program forms. Be sure to utilize the website for all forms. We recently received a Healthy Lifestyle Questionnaire from 2011!
Just a good reminder that the website houses all the most up to date forms to utilize. The site is https://dhhs.ne.gov/Pages/EWM-Provider-Information.aspx
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Contact your Clinic Technical Assistance Representative (listed below) if you and/or your clinic are interested in finding out more about training (to review processes, procedures and policies) or if you have any programmatic questions. |
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What do you need to submit?
Reminder that when submitting claim documentation to Every Woman Matters, sending office notes are NOT required. Program documentation, as outlined in the Provider Participation Manual (pages 54-58), are items that are REQUIRED to send when submitting claim documentation.
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TRAINING, EVENTS AND CONFERENCES:
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NEW AND UPDATED RESOURCES:
- The WMHP Provider Participation Manual has been updated in the “Provider Participation Manual, Fee Schedules and Income Guidelines” tab
- Resources that were located in the Provider Manual have been removed from the manual and added to the website under a new tab called “Professional and Public Cancer Education and Informational Resources”. Having the resources on the website will give us an opportunity to update and add resources as we need to vs waiting until we update the manual.
- Provider Lessons have been updated on are located in the “Program Specific Webinars, Newsletters, Training and Resources” tab. Provider Lessons include the following:
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Nebraska Tobacco Treatment Specialist Trainings Tobacco Free Nebraska and the Rural Health Transformation Program are sponsoring upcoming Tobacco Treatment Specialist (TTS) trainings for healthcare professionals who provide treatment to individuals seeking to quit tobacco. Two sessions are remaining: one in-person and one virtual.
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REFERRING CLIENTS TO QUITLINE:
Providers can refer patients using the online web referral option or the fax referral form. Visit QuitNow.ne.gov/providers to access tools, resources, and education modules, plus the web and fax referrals for providers ready to help patients quit.
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EWM Competitive Grant Application
Every five years the Every Woman Matters Program must submit a competitive grant application to continue to receive funding. The application will be due to our funders in early February.
EWM will need to submit letters of support from both our clients and providers. When we start to collect the letters of support we may be reaching out to you for assistance. If you're interested in helping, please respond to any of our requests as soon as possible so we can include your feedback.
Stay tuned and keep and eye out for those requests in the coming weeks!
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