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Hospitalized children under the age of 19 who have not been determined disabled or presumptively disabled must be tested for BadgerCare Plus with their families. See Process Help Section 12.18.1.4 Health Care Applications for Institutionalized Children for processing instructions. Minors in a medical institution qualify for 12 months of continuous coverage. If they are discharged from a medical institution during their continuous coverage period and they do not qualify for any other form of full-benefit health care after they have been discharged, they remain eligible for Institutional Medicaid for the rest of their continuous coverage period. This page last updated in Release Number: 23-04 Release Date: 12/18/2023 Effective Date: 01/01/2024 27.2 ILTC Licensing and Certification Medical institutions (SNFs, ICFs, IMDs, hospitals) are licensed under Chapter 50, Wis. Stats. The Bureau of Quality Assurance is the licensing agency. In order to receive Medicaid payment for the care and services they provide, medical institutions must comply with federal MA requirements. The agency that certifies their compliance is DMS. This page last updated in Release Number: 13-01 Release Date: 08/26/13 Effective Date: 08/26/13 27.3 ILTC Facilities Not Medicaid Certified Determine the eligibility of persons in non-certified facilities in the same way as for those in certified facilities. Medicaid will not pay cost of care for these persons, but they may still be eligible for Medicaid card services (see SECTION 21.4.1.1 MEDICAID CARD SERVICES). This page last updated in Release Number: 22-01 Release Date: 04/04/2022 Effective Date: 04/04/2022 27.4 ILTC Definitions 27.4.1 Institutionalized Person "Institutionalized person" means someone who: 1. Participates in Community Waivers, or 2. Has resided in a medical institution for 30 or more consecutive days, or 3. Is likely to reside in a medical institution for 30 or more consecutive days, as attested to by the medical institution. An exception to the 30-day period is that a resident of an IMD is considered an institutionalized person until he or she is discharged. The 30-day period includes situations in which the person resides in more than one medical institution during 30 or more consecutive days. However, an individual is not considered “institutionalized” if he or