New Identity and Citizenship Regulations
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Issue 34, Summer 2007 New Identity and Citizenship Regulations
by Lisa Ruby, MPLP Public Benefits Attorney
As part of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, states are requiring applicants
and ongoing recipients of Medicaid to prove citizenship status using original
documents. The result is that these
requirements that began July 1, 2006, have cost health centers $28 million to
$85 million and 2.2% to 6.7% of their 4.8 million Medicaid enrollees. These were the reported results of an online
survey released last month by the George Washington University School of Public
Health and Health Services. Responses came in from 139 of the 300 federally
qualified health centers surveyed. There are 952 such facilities in the
Here in Michigan, these new regulations went into effect on April 1,
2007. Thus far there has not been a huge
deluge of application denials or termination of benefits. However, it is still early in the process
with the majority of recipients not yet having been asked to provide this
information as they have yet to go through their annual redetermination. Some recipients will not be subject to this
requirement as their records will show up in the data matching system being
used by the state. For individuals who
were born in Michigan, that information is already on record. However, technical difficulties may still be
lurking around the corner. In
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