Medicaid
By Madison Deane
What is Medicaid?
The Benefits of Medicaid
Some benefits of Medicare include hospital care, nursing home care, physician services, laboratory and diagnostic x ray services, immunizations and other screening, diagnostic and treatment services for children, family planning, health center and rural health clinic services, nurse midwife and nurse practitioner services, and physician assistant services. Participating states may offer the following optional services and receive federal matching funds for them; prescription medications, institutional care, home- or community-based care for the elderly, including case management, personal care for the disabled, and dental and vision care for eligible adults.
Qualifications for Medicaid
People qualify for Medicaid by meeting federal income and asset standards and by fitting into a specified eligibility.
You may be eligible for Medicaid if you have limited income and are 65 or older, a child under 19, pregnant, living with a disability, a parent or adult caring for a child, an adult without dependent children (in certain states,) or an eligible immigrant.
Depending on your income, you can still qualify for Medicaid even if you have private health insurance through your employer. If you have both private health insurance and Medicaid, your private health plan will pay your medical costs first, and then what is left over may be covered by Medicaid.
Citations
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"Revised June 2015 What’s Medicare?" N.p., 2015. Web. 27 Oct. 2016.
Photograph: Legal, Inc. US. "USLegal." Medicaid. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 Oct. 2016