You can get Medicaid while wedded and pregnant and lose coverage by getting married. How can both of these statements be simultaneously true? States base Medicaid eligibility on your household’s Federal Poverty Level (FPL) percentage. Your marital status is not part of the criteria but can infl...
Eligibility: Medicaid provides health coverage for low-income children, families, seniors and people with disabilities. The STAR+PLUS plan covers adults with a disability, people 65 or older, and women with breast or cervical cancer. The STAR plan covers children, pregnant women, and some families...
Presumptive Medicaid Eligibility for Pregnant Women in MississippiLutz, ElizabethDossabhoy, RohintonDobbs, ThomasJournal of the Mississippi State Medical Association
Advertisement The STAR program primarily serves pregnant women and low-income children and their caregivers. CHIP offers health coverage to children from low-income families whose earnings exceed Medicaid’s eligibility threshold — which in Texas is among the lowest in the nation...
“There’s no version,” he said, “that I would support.” Low-income children, pregnant women, older Kansans and people with disabilities already qualify for state health care, as well as a small number of extremely low-income parents. A family of four must...
state is required to abide by certain eligibility criteria, such as the income limits for specific groups. In all states, Medicaid is open to pregnant women, children up to 18 years of age, parents or guardians with children living in the household, adults over age 65 and disabled ...
The study area consisted of a five county region (Liberty, Hardin, Orange, Jefferson and Chambers) in Texas, home to the Beaumont-Port Arthur Metropolitan Statistical Area. Although women with Medicaid-covered births are of low socioeconomic strata, they are a diverse group of individuals. ...
The MDCH uses federal poverty levels as a basis for monthly income limits when determining an applicant's Medicaid eligibility. The current monthly income limits for Medicaid in Michigan is 185 percent of the federal poverty level for pregnant women and families with newborns up to age one. For...
He said the GOP will look to scale back Medicaid to its "traditional" populations of children, pregnant women and people with disabilities. "We need to rebalance the program that most people think is underperforming," he said. Most Americans, including large majorities of both Republicans and De...
Not everyone qualifies for Medicaid. If your income falls below the poverty level, determined by your state, you might qualify. There are also a number of mandatory eligibility groups, including some pregnant women and children, and individuals receiving Supplemental Security Income.17 Who Is Eligib...