Appeals and state-based health insurance options for immigrants<\/p>\n
Immigrants can appeal Medicaid terminations through the state Department of Human Services\u2019 County Assistance Offices<\/a>, especially if their immigration status on file is out of date or if they potentially qualify for Pennsylvania\u2019s state-funded Medicaid program<\/a>.<\/p>\n People who lose federal insurance benefits could qualify for state-only Medicaid if they meet certain income and asset limits.<\/p>\n They also need to fall into at least one of the following eligibility categories: parents of children under 21, people 59 and older, people who have a disability or need \u201chealth sustaining medications,\u201d a caregiver of young children or household members who are disabled or ill, people in addiction treatment, victims of domestic violence who are receiving protective services, and people who work at least 100 hours a month at minimum wage.<\/p>\n Eligibility for the state program is much broader than the federal one, so people shouldn\u2019t wait to file an appeal, Pileggi said, even if they don\u2019t know for certain it will get approved.<\/p>\n \u201cMost of the time, an appeal has merit,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n People who submit appeals postmarked before or on Oct. 1 can keep their current federal Medicaid health insurance while their case is reviewed, which is the ideal scenario, Pileggi said.<\/p>\n But there will still be people who miss that deadline, said Kyle Fisher, managing attorney at the Pennsylvania Health Law Project, who expects many immigrants will have some lapse in coverage.<\/p>\n People may also hesitate because they don\u2019t understand the complex eligibility and documentation requirements for both the appeal and for state-funded Medicaid reviews, including income limits, he said.<\/p>\n \u201cNo one\u2019s figuring that out without help from legal aid, right?\u201d Fisher asked.<\/p>\n DHS officials said they will review everyone affected by the federal changes to see if they qualify for state-funded Medicaid, but legal experts said the decisions won\u2019t be immediate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Appeals and state-based health insurance options for immigrants Immigrants can appeal Medicaid terminations through the state Department of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7939,28,30,29,724],"class_list":["post-296108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-medicaid","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-trump-impact"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}