Kansas Family Medical Assistance
Manual (KFMAM)
Eligibility Policy - 12/26/2024
02000 >>> 02330
02320
02330 Inpatient Care for MCD Children - Eligibility for children may end in either the calendar month the child turns age 1 or age 6 based on the differing poverty level determinations. However, if the child is receiving inpatient services in the month, he or she turns age 1 or 6, Medicaid eligibility shall continue through the calendar month in which the inpatient care ends provided the child is or will be a Medicaid recipient in the month he or she turns such age (including prior eligibility). This provision would not be applicable to a child turning age 1 who continues to be eligible using the 133% poverty guideline for children ages 1 to 6 or turning age 6 who continue to be eligible using the 100% poverty guideline for children ages 6 and above. It also does not apply to long term care treatment and, thus, if the child's inpatient stay will exceed the month following the month of entrance, there is no continued poverty level eligibility beyond the month the client turns age 1 or 6. Instead, eligibility would be determined using long term care methodologies. The extended eligibility period is applicable not only to children who were poverty level program recipients in the month they turned age 1 or 6, but also to children who were eligible under another Medicaid program that month and lost that eligibility due to a change in circumstances (e.g., loss of cash eligibility). All general eligibility factors must continue to eligibility would continue to be determined based on the poverty level program rules.