24.2 Medicaid Deductible Introduction

When a Medicaid applicantA person who has submitted a request for coverage for whom no decision has been made regarding eligibility is ineligible for Medicaid solely because he or she has income that exceeds the Medicaid medically needy income limit, he or she can become eligible by meeting the Medicaid deductible. "Meeting the Medicaid deductible" means incurring medical costs that equal the dollar amount of the deductible.

The Medicaid deductible is the group's total excess monthly income over the 6 consecutive months of the Medicaid deductible period (See 24.3 Deductible Period).

"Excess monthly income" is the amount which is above the group's monthly medically needy income limit.

This page last updated in Release Number: 08-01
Release Date: 02/01/2008
Effective Date: 02/01/2008

The information concerning the Medicaid program provided in this handbook release is published in accordance with: Titles XI and XIX of the Social Security Act; Parts 430 through 481 of Title 42 of the Code of Federal Regulations; Chapters 46 and 49 of the Wisconsin Statutes; and Chapters HA 3, DHS 2, 10 and 101 through 109 of the Wisconsin Administrative Code.

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