Category Archives: Mental Health – Child

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Medicaid letter

As part of the process of dealing with Medicaid, we received a letter from our county social services office. It reads in part: Your Medicaid will end on May 31, 2014 because: Your case closed as you requested. It then goes on to list the applicable laws. Further it states: The Medicaid for David is closing as he is at the facility in Billings, MT.  A subadopt child is considered to be a resident of the state they are physically living in and will need to apply for Medicaid in the state where they are currently residing. My thoughts. David is 12 years old.  He can’t be emancipated to live on his own until he is like 16.   The only reason he is at this facility is because all of the facilities in the state we live in said that they couldn’t take him if the last facility he was

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filing an appeal with medicaid.

While the state is actively reviewing David’s case, we are going to file an appeal. Not sure what will happen, but this way, no one can say we didn’t exhaust all measures.   It seems strange to me to have to appeal something that he was ordered by the court to have until he is 18.  Usually, one files an appeal to get out of whatever court order is in place. At any rate, that is all to report today. Cheers. Carl Related articles Medicaid, still no resolution (whynotfathers.com) Medicaid: Half of Doctors Won’t Accept New Patients (ivoter.com) Tweet #fighting4answrs

Medicaid, still no resolution

Well, it has been a week since we learned that David’s Medicaid would be closed and that we would have to reapply in the state where the PRTF level facility he resides is located.   Still no resolution.  But we have a variety of people from the state working on it, and I am creating a case history with our state Protection and Advocacy agency in regards to this. Why? It isn’t just because he has Medicaid and they should have to cover the expenses.  He was court ordered to have Medicaid provided on his behalf until he turns 18.  The key here is Court Ordered.  That means that  a judge says he has to have it.   It isn’t an entitlement in the sense that most people are thinking.  I didn’t apply for him to have medicaid.  It came with him as part of his adoption. Where I am struggling is:

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