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Illinois Medicaid Eligibility and Enrollment January 29, Learn how Illinois Medicaid programs help older adults access quality health care services. Find out who qualifies, what the programs cover and how to apply.
What Is Illinois Medicaid? What Does Illinois Medicaid Cover? Services covered by basic Medicaid include: Doctor visits Basic dental care Mental health and substance abuse services Hospital care Emergency services Prescription medications Necessary medical equipment On top of the traditional Medicaid program, Illinois also offers several other Medicaid program options for older adults that include varying other services.
HealthChoice Illinois HealthChoice is a managed care program that provides all the benefits of regular Medicaid, in addition to some of the following added benefits: hour nursing helpline Personal care coordination Routine wellness visits Immunizations Transportation to and from appointments Transitional care from hospital or nursing home into the community In addition to added health-related services, care coordinators also connect beneficiaries with resources such as nutritional assistance programs, energy assistance and support groups as needed.
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Healthcare and Medical Assistance. What is Illinois Medicaid? Illinois has been slower than many other states in moving beneficiaries to managed care plans.
As of , more than 81 percent of Illinois Medicaid enrollees were covered under Medicaid managed care plans. The law restored adult dental care and podiatry services, aligns Illinois law with federal law to provide Medicaid coverage to children who have been without private insurance for three months, streamlines hospital and nursing-home reimbursement, and more.
Illinois opted to expand Medicaid eligibility, as allowed by the ACA, in July for a January 1, effective date. However, a Supreme Court ruling made Medicaid expansion optional, and as of mid, there were still 12 states that had not expanded Medicaid two others, Oklahoma and Missouri , had not yet expanded Medicaid but will do so in , after voters approved Medicaid expansion ballot initiatives in The federal government paid percent of the cost for the Medicaid expansion population through At the time Medicaid expansion was approved, Illinois officials estimated that , Illinois residents would qualify.
But according to the Chicago Tribune, about , new enrollees were approved in just the first several months, by June And a year later, by June , total enrollments under Medicaid expansion in Illinois had reached , By August , the total had exceeded , But enrollment had dropped to , people as of July , and remained at a very similar level , as of April That was still far higher than the state had initially projected, but lower than it had been a few years earlier. Louise Norris is an individual health insurance broker who has been writing about health insurance and health reform since She has written dozens of opinions and educational pieces about the Affordable Care Act for healthinsurance.
Her state health exchange updates are regularly cited by media who cover health reform and by other health insurance experts.
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