Emergency Medicaid is month-to-month Medicaid Coverage for people who are undocumented or non-citizens and have an emergency medical situation.
Only emergency medical conditions are covered. For example, pre-natal care is not covered, but the actual delivery of the child is covered.
Who is eligible?
- Parents of a dependent child or children age(s) 6-19 in a household earning 100% or below the Federal poverty Level. For parents to be eligible, households must meet the Asset Test (less than $2000 in checking and savings, own one car and own one home).
- Children 1-5 in a household earning 133% or below the Federal Poverty Level.
- Pregnant women and child(ren) 0-1 in a household earning 185% or below the Federal Poverty Level.
- Individual with disabilities, blind or over 65 years of age, who would qualify for SSI if not undocumented immigrants.
Basically, Emergency Medicaid is for people who would be eligible for Medicaid based on income resources and household size, but due to citizenship requirements they are not eligible. For example, a single person with no disabilities who is age 26 would still not qualify for Emergency Medicaid because there is no Medicaid category for this person.
To Apply:
Fill out MAABD application or check “MAADB” box on regular application for person applying for benefits. Also, write “Emergency Medicaid” on the top of the first page of the application.
This program does do retroactive payment of medical bills for eligible applicants. However, the applicant must mark “yes” to question #13 on Page 2 of the Medicaid application. In addition, the applicant must have evidence of all prior medical bills they are asking for payment.