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Mod 3A UHI Ch. 15
Medicaid
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Federally mandated... | state administered |
| Medicaid | For individuals with incomes below the fedreal poverty level |
| Medicaid is jointly funded by... | federal and state governments. |
| Establishes its... | own eligibiligy standards |
| Determines the ... | type, amount, duration and scope of services |
| Administers | its own program |
| State legislature may change... | medicaid eligibility requirements during the year. |
| Classification of individuals | Categorically or medically needy and special groups. |
| TANF | Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, July 16 1996; children's program |
| AFDC | replaced by TANF |
| States that implement a medically needy Medicaid program are required to... | include pregnant women through a 60-day postpartum and children under age 18, certain newborns for one year and certain protected blind persons. |
| QMB | Qualified Medicare Beneficiaries-states pay Medicare part A premiums |
| QWDI | Qualified Working Disabled Individuals-states pay Medicare part A premiums |
| QI | Qualifying Individual-states pay Medicare part B |
| SLMB | Specified Low-Income Medicare Beneficiary-states pay Medicare Part B |
| SCHIP | State Children's health Insurance Program-allows states to create or expand existing insurance programs to include a number of uninsured children. |
| PACE | Programs of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly-work to limit out of pocket costs to beneficiary by not applying deductibles, copayments or other cost sharing. |
| What is not included in a couple's combined resources? | home, household goods, automobile, and burial funds. |
| To receive federal matching funds, states must offer... | Inpatient hospital, outpatient hospital, lab, x-ray, nursing facility services, EPSDT, family planning services and supplies. |
| Medicaid operates as a ... | vendor-payment program |
| Exempt from copayments | Emergency services and family planning servies. |
| FMAP | Portion of the Medicaid program paid by the federal government. |
| Medicaid is always | payer of last resort |
| Dual eligibles | Eligible for Medicaid and Medicare |
| Providers are forbidden by law.. | to bill patients for Medicaid-covered benefits (balance billing) |
| MEVS | Medicaid Eligibility Verification System-allows providers to electronically access the state's eligibility file. |
| Verification of Eligibility methods | Point of service, Computer software, Automated Voice Response (Telephone) |
| Voided Claim | One that Medicaid should not have originally paid, and results in a deduction from teh lump-sum payment made to the provider. |
| Adjusted Claim | Has a payment correction, resulting in additional payment to the provider. |
| Medicaid covered services are payable only... | When the service is determined by the provider to be medically necessary; consistent with the patient's symptoms, diagnosis, conditionor injury. |
| Subrogation | Another party is liable. |
| Optometry | Optional but not all states have it. |
| Presumptive eligibility | Medicaid insurance is retro back 3 months for children, breast & cervical cancer treatment for women. |
| Monthly survey letter | Sent to Medicaid recipients for verification of services paid the previous month |
| First 10 days of life of newborn... | Covered under mother's ID number |
| Community spouse | The spouse residing at home while the other is in a nursing home. |
| Questions regarding Medicaid coverage | Direct to county government. |
| Utilization Review | Audit |
| Infant of a Medicaid recipient is .. | automatically eligble for Medicaid for the entire first year of life provided the newborn is continuously living with their mother for that full year. |
| Preauthorization |