Rule 5160:1-4-03 | MAGI-based medicaid: coverage for Ribicoff and former foster care children.
(A) This rule describes the eligibility criteria for applications for medical assistance for individuals:
(1) Who are nineteen or twenty years of age; or
(2) Who aged out of foster care, are younger than twenty-six years of age, and are not otherwise eligible for a mandatory category of coverage under the medicaid state plan. An individual who is eligible for coverage both as a former foster care child and under the coverage described in section 1902(a)(10)(A)(i)(VIII) of the Social Security Act (as in effect October 1, 2022) shall be placed in the former foster care eligibility category.
(B) Eligibility criteria for coverage because an individual is nineteen or twenty years of age in accordance with 42 C.F.R. 435.222 (as in effect October 1, 2022).
(1) The individual must be nineteen or twenty years of age.
(2) The individual's family size and household income must be calculated as described in rule 5160:1-4-01 of the Administrative Code.
(3) The individual's household income must not exceed fourty-four per cent of the federal poverty level for the family size.
(C) Eligibility criteria for coverage because an individual aged out of foster care in accordance with 42 C.F.R. 435.150 (as in effect October 1, 2022).
(1) The individual must:
(a) Be at least eighteen years of age and younger than twenty-six years of age;
(b) Have been in foster care:
(i) Under the responsiblity of the state of Ohio on the individual's eighteenth birthday, or at the time of aging out of the state's foster care program, regardless of the date the individual aged out of foster care; or
(ii) Under the responsibility of any state on the individual's eighteenth birthday, or at the time of aging out of that state's foster care program, when the indivdual aged out of foster care on or after January 1, 2023;
(c) Have been eligible for and enrolled in medicaid while in such foster care; and
(d) Cooperate in establishing eligibility, which includes signing and dating the application in accordance with rule 5160:1-2-08 of the Administrative Code.
(2) Under this paragraph, there is no income test for coverage because an individual aged out of foster care.
Last updated January 3, 2023 at 8:51 AM
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