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(ii) Medicaid coverage may only be provided provisionally during the reasonable opportunity period;

(iii) Failure to submit acceptable documentation within the reasonable opportunity period required under federal law shall result in denial or termination of medicaid eligibility, subject to required notice;

(iv) No additional reasonable opportunity period shall be granted to any applicant for medicaid who has previously been denied eligibility at any time due to a failure to verify citizenship or eligible alien status.

42-12-106. Citizenship data collection and presumptive eligibility integrity, medicaid. Note: this section is effective as of 1/1/2027.

(a) The department of health shall require a field for citizenship or eligible alien status on all presumptive eligibility applications. The department shall require hospitals, clinics and other qualified entities authorized to conduct presumptive eligibility determinations to collect and transmit attestations of citizenship or eligible alien status to the department. No presumptive eligibility application shall be approved unless the applicant certifies that they are a United States citizen, United States national, or alien eligible for medicaid pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1398b(v) and W.S. 42-12-101(b).

(b) The department of health shall:

(i) Beginning not later than April 1, 2027, require each hospital that accepts medicaid to include a provision on its patient admission or registration form for the patient or the patient's representative to state or indicate whether the patient is a United States citizen or lawfully present in the United States or is not lawfully present in the United States;

(ii) Beginning not later than April 1, 2027, require each hospital that accepts medicaid to inform a patient, at the time this information is collected, that any submission made on