Medicaid Changes from the Accountable Care Act-Whether or Not Your State Adopted the Revised Eligibility Guidelines
What State Medicaid Expansions May look like in 2014 This article reviews the draft model for one state�s answer to the Medicaid Expansion under the Accountable Care Act. Washington State has posted the preliminary benchmarks and plan design for accommodating this act. [1] Warning to readers-this article may contain acronyms which are mind numbing, but part of the lumbering vernacular, and wherever possible the full name is cited. Medicaid Eligibility To start with there are a dozen categories of �fast track� exemptions for Medicaid applicants and here is that list: Health care for disabled workers Family planning extension (more on this later) Take charge family planning (whoa Nelly) Psychologically indigent inpatient program (example-homeless folks) Involuntary treatment act (hopefully this will apply to some of the nut-jobs who manage to obtain machine guns) Kidney disease program (for those on dialysis) ADATSA(Alcohol Drug Addiction Treatment Support Act) Social Security Inc...