Recent Issue Alerts

• Medicaid for young adults “aging out” of foster care can keep Medicaid until they turn 21 (July 2008) http://www.mplp.org/Issues/mplpissue.2008-07-08.7098968499/
• New Medicaid verification policy allows three extensions of time (July 2008) http://www.mplp.org/Issues/mplpissue.2008-07-08.9949304300/
• DHS may take up to 90 days to process disability-based Medicaid applications (April 2008) http://www.mplp.org/Issues/mplpissue.2008-04-10.4700610666/
• New Medicaid policy does not county retroactive Social Security and SSI awards as assets for 9 months (March 2008) http://www.mplp.org/Issues/mplpissue.2008-03-25.4860645271/
• Expanded list of acceptable documents for verifying citizenship (January 2008) http://www.mplp.org/Issues/mplpissue.2008-01-08.0691077831/
• Unlawful definition of a “child” in state Medicaid policy may result in denial of Medicaid or a higher Medicaid deductible (spenddown) amount for some parents, caretaker relatives (kinship caregivers), and children with disabilities (August 2007)http://www.mplp.org/Issues/mplpissue.2007-08-21.6881366364
• Guarantee of payment letters for pregnant women seeking Medicaid are available at local health department but not at DHS (June 2007) http://www.mplp.org/Issues/mplpissue.2007-06-26.4587648097
• Under new policy, Medicaid will not be terminated as a work-related penalty (April 2007) http://www.mplp.org/Issues/mplpissue.2007-04-18.1778749732
• Policy on denial of service for non-payment of Medicaid co-payments changes again (January 2007) http://www.mplp.org/Issues/mplpissue.2007-02-07.2798580729
  
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