Clarifying information

If an individual in a retroactive certification period for the Apple Health for Pregnant Women and Apple Health for Kids program is eligible in one of the three months prior to the application (the retroactive months), children will receive coverage for 12 months from the month of eligibility and pregnant individuals will receive coverage from the month of eligibility through the 60 days postpartum period.

Example

Pregnant woman applies in March, but her countable income exceeds the standard. She also requests retroactive coverage. Her countable income in January was below the standard. Since she was also pregnant in January, one of the previous three months, she is eligible from January 1 through the entire pregnancy and the postpartum extension. The certification period is for that entire period.