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Article: Medicaid and pregnant women: who is being enrolled and when.(Access to Health Services for Vulnerable Populations)
- Article from:
- Health Care Financing Review
- Article date:
- December 22, 1995
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1995 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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INTRODUCTION
During the late 1980s, Congress focused heavily on expanding Medicaid eligibility at the State level for low-income pregnant women. By 1990, States were required to extend Medicare coverage to all pregnant women with family incomes below 133 percent of the Federal poverty level (FPL), with the option to cover up to 185 percent of FPL. States were also permitted to drop the assets test and expedite the eligibility process in other ways. Before the changes, Medicaid coverage for pregnant women had been closely linked to the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program, and State AFDC programs generally used income standards for eligibility that ...