Alena, Medicaid is a state-administered program. Your state Medicaid office will have resources to tell what benefits are available and how to get them.
Kaiser Foundation Website. KFF provides resource material covering Medicaid from a national perspective with break downs of state-level data as well as prospective research on policy issues that will affect Medicaid. The KFF Fact Sheets can be particularly useful when you hit a snag with state-level policy to at least put the problem in context and maybe offer a solution.
is a federal website that seems mostly to be directed to state Medicaid personnel.
When dealing with any bureaucracy, my experience is that lower level employees do not always have access to the full scope of the system. That is, they know their part of the system but do not always know or understand what the other parts do. This is where "the runaround" comes from and why we seem to be sent from person to person with no answer or get conflicting answers. Moving up a level or two in the organizational chart may get more satisfactory results. I strongly recommend heavy doses of courtesy and politeness to smooth your way.
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Kaiser Foundation Website. KFF provides resource material covering Medicaid from a national perspective with break downs of state-level data as well as prospective research on policy issues that will affect Medicaid. The KFF Fact Sheets can be particularly useful when you hit a snag with state-level policy to at least put the problem in context and maybe offer a solution.
is a federal website that seems mostly to be directed to state Medicaid personnel.
When dealing with any bureaucracy, my experience is that lower level employees do not always have access to the full scope of the system. That is, they know their part of the system but do not always know or understand what the other parts do. This is where "the runaround" comes from and why we seem to be sent from person to person with no answer or get conflicting answers. Moving up a level or two in the organizational chart may get more satisfactory results. I strongly recommend heavy doses of courtesy and politeness to smooth your way.