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MEDICAID ARTICLES ON DURABLE MEDICAL EQUIPMENT
Volume V, Issue 4 (Summer 2000)
Medicaid Part I: Overview of Eligibility Criteria; Special Disability-Related Provisions
Administration of medicaid
SSI and welfare recipients qualify for medicaid
automatically
All others seeking medicaid must submit an
application
Categorical eligibility
Financial eligibility
Verification of eligibility is the applicants
responsibility.
Medicaid must provide written notice of its
determination
Medicaid appeals: the fair hearing process
Special Medicaid rules for persons with disabilities
Automatic Medicaid for former SSI recipients
Special deductions from income and resources
Volume V, Issue 4 (Summer 2000)
MEDICAID PART III: PRIOR APPROVAL OF ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY; FAIR HEARING AND COURT APPEALS
Coming:
Medicaid Part II: The Prior Approval Process for Funding Assistive Technology; Appealing Adverse Decisions