| Medicaid can be confusing if you are not familiar with it. | | | | who are in need of long-term care in a nursing home, |
| If you have never had to use Medicaid services, you | | | | people on Medicare, and emergency services for |
| may no know a lot about it. Having Medicaid | | | | aliens or refugees. There is also a medically needy |
| information is important in any state. The requirements | | | | program for people with extremely high medical bills |
| for Medicaid vary from state to state, but the | | | | whose income is normally too high for Medicaid, but |
| programs are generally the same. Federal and state | | | | they have run out of insurance benefits or have no |
| monies fund Medicaid. The government sets up the | | | | insurance at all. These are usually people who have |
| programs, and the states decide how to administer | | | | suffered a very serious disease of some kind.The |
| them.Florida Medicaid follows the same general | | | | kinds of things Medicaid covers include: long term care, |
| guidelines as other states. The purpose of Medicaid is | | | | hospice care, home health care, prescription drugs, |
| to provide low-income families with children and also | | | | inpatient hospital services, outpatient hospital services, |
| individuals with health care. Applications for Florida | | | | procedures performed at surgical centers, county |
| Medicaid are obtained from the Florida Department of | | | | health department services, community mental health |
| Children and Families, or DCF. They can also provide a | | | | services, child health check ups, physician services, |
| list of physicians, specialist and HMO providers that | | | | family planning, pregnancy, and birth services, dental, |
| accept Medicaid payments.The people that are eligible | | | | vision, hearing and therapy services for children under |
| for Medicaid include low income families with children, | | | | 21, lab and x-ray services medical equipment and |
| women who are pregnant, infants and children under | | | | supplies, and transportation to and from a Medicaid |
| the age of 21, SSI recipients, people who are older than | | | | covered appointment.The eligibility requirements for |
| 65, those that are blind or permanently disabled, people | | | | Medicaid depend on many things. |