STATE OF ALASKA

Department of Health and Social Services

Division of Public Assistance

 

TRANSMITTAL NUMBER: MCManual Change #7

 

MANUAL: Aged, Disabled and Long Term Care Medicaid Eligibility Manual

 

DATE:  September 14, 2007

 

This manual change implements important policy changes for verifying citizenship and identity due to issuance of the final federal rules.  Staff need to take the following steps:

 

 

 

 

 

Additional forms of documentation for U.S.United States citizenship and identification are also allowed, such as a religious record, or the Roll of Alaska Native for citizenship verification, and identity declarations for children under age 18 and disabled individuals in institutional care.  

 

This manual change also clarifies Retroactive Medicaid, provides for automatic newborn eligibility for a child whose birth is covered under Emergency Treatment for Aliens policy, and allows faxed applications to be accepted.

 

Also included is an update to Addendum 2 to reflect the increased resource limit for the Working Disabled Buy-In Medicaid category.  Other technical changes are also made.

 

Highlights of these policy revisions are described below.  If you have any questions, please contact any member of the Policy and Program Development Team at 465-3347 or email dpapolicy@alaska.gov.

 

OVERVIEW OF CHANGES

 

MS 511 E - Penalty for Failure to Cooperate

 

MS 516 - Retroactive Medicaid Eligibility

 

MS 520 B - U.S.United States Citizenship and Eligible Alien Status

 

MS 524 E - Transfer of Resources

 

Addendum 2 - APAAdult Public Assistance Adult Public Assistance Related Medicaid Subtypes

 

Addendum 5 - Medicaid EISEligibility Information System Eligibility Information System Notices