Working with Medicaid

Working with Medicaid

Samantha Hudson

HCR/230

June 22, 2014

Harry Holt

Medicaid is an essential and beneficial form of health care insurance that is offered to cover the medical expenses for people and their family members who have low income or no income at all. Individuals who receive low income have the same medical needs as others with mid or high-income, and Medicaid was designed to help pay for the medical services that these individuals can't afford. When people apply for Medicaid they must be qualified by meeting certain requirements that varies. According to Valerius et. al (2014), “The federal government requires states to offer benefits to the following groups: people with low incomes and few resources who receive financial assistance under Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), people who are eligible for TANF but who do not receive financial assistance, people who receive foster care or adoption assistance under Title IV-E of the Social Security Act, children under six years of age who meet TANF requirements or whose family income is below 133 percent of the poverty level, people in some groups who lose cash assistance when their work income or Social Security benefits exceed allowable limits (temporary Medicaid eligibility), pregnant women whose family income is below 133 percent of the poverty level (coverage limited to pregnancy-related medical care), infants born to Medicaid-eligible pregnant women, people who are sixty-five and over, legally blind, or totally disabled and who receive Supplemental Security Income (SSI), and certain low income Medicare recipients.”

Medicaid covers the medical expense of a variety of medical procedures that includes inpatient and outpatient hospital services, physician services, vision care, clinical services, prescription drugs, laboratory services, transportation to receive medical services, prosthetic devices, home healthcare services, family planning services, x-ray...