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MEDICAL SERVICES POLICY MANUAL,SECTION K K-100 Medicaid Coverage of Foster Children K 103 Initial Determination of Eligibility

Care and the Court awards custody to the Agency. If a parent voluntarily relinquishes custody of a child into foster care, that child will not be eligible for IV-E FC (Category 92). A child taken into Foster Care on the basis of an emergency order only may be determined Medicaid eligible. If custody is later established by a judicial determination, the Family Service Worker will be required to provide a copy of the order to the DCFS Eligibility Unit.  NOTE: The exception to eligibility guidelines for State FC-U-18 Related (Category 91) and State FC-MN (Categories 96 and 97) is that eligibility for Foster Children in these categories may continue up to age 21, provided that the child has signed an agreement to remain in FC and that the Division of Children and Family Services continues to provide FC Services to these children.

K-103 Initial Determination of Eligibility MS Manual 01/01/14 Children entering Foster Care will be referred by the Family Service Worker to the DCFS Eligibility Unit for initial determination of Medicaid eligibility. Referral should be made within one working day after the child’s entry into Foster Care.

K-104 Family Service Worker Responsibilities MS Manual 01/01/14 The Family Service Worker will complete placement information in the Children’s Reporting Information System (CHRIS) and, upon approval of the placement information by the DCFS Supervisor, the CHRIS system will send an alert to the DCFS Eligibility Unit inbox that an application has been submitted. A separate application will be generated for every child. If the identity of a child entering foster care is unknown and the Family Service Worker is unable to obtain birth verification through family, hospital, Vital Records, or other records, the court order placing the child in foster care may be used as acceptable verification of age and residence. Children in Foster Care, who are recipients of Foster care maintenance or adoption assistance payments under Title IV-E, are exempt from the citizenship verification requirement (RE. MS G-130 and MS G-134). The SSN enumeration requirement, however, cannot be waived.