Means-tested entitlement program, financed jointly by the state and federal governments, that provides medical services to people with low incomes. States must offer certain services, including inpatient and outpatient hospital services, physicians’ (including psychiatrists) services, clinical laboratory and X-ray services, and home health services. Additional coverage of persons with mental illnesses is limited.
For programs receiving federal support, the services paid include: inpatient and outpatient hospital services; other laboratory and x-ray services; skilled nursing facility and home health services for those over 21; early and periodic screening, diagnosis, and treatment for those under 21; family planning; and physician services.
Federal and state government-financed health insurance for individuals and families whose financial status is below the poverty level.
Federally-aided. State operated and administered program which provides medical benefits for certain low-income persons in need of health and medical care. The program, authorized title XIX of the Social Security Act, is basically for the poor. It does not cover all of the poor, however, but only persons who are members of one of the categories of people who can be covered under the welfare cash payment programs—the aged, the blind, the disabled, and members of families with dependent children where one parent is absent, incapacitated or unemployed. Under certain circumstances States may provide Medicaid coverage for children under 21 who are not categorically related. Subject to broad Federal guidelines, States determine the benefits covered, program eligibility, rates of payment for providers, and methods of administering the program. Medicaid is estimated to provide services to some 25 million people, with Federal-State expenditures of approximately $12.5 billion in fiscal year 1975.
The federal program which provides health care to indigent and medically indigent persons. While partially federally funded, the Medicaid program is administered by the states, in contrast with Medicare, which is federally funded and administered at the federal level. The Medicaid program was established in 1965 by amendment to the Social Security Act, under a provision entitled “Title XIX—Medical Assistance”
Federally and state-funded program of health care for needy persons, regardless of age. Five basic services are provided; in-patient hospital, outpatient hospital, laboratory and X ray, skilled nursing home, and physician. In each state, income and assets criteria determine eligibility.
A federal and state funded health insurance program for low-income people of all ages. Medicaid money funds state programs that provide health service to people who qualify for welfare in their state. Individuals must meet income and resource guidelines. Medicaid is the major source of public funding for the long-term care of older people. However, the financial requirements are very strict. Older people cannot receive help from Medicaid until they have spent almost all of their own income and assets on care. Once this requirement has been met, Medicaid will pay for nursing home care, a limited amount of home and community-based care for those who would otherwise enter nursing homes, medications, eye examinations and eyeglasses, and transportation for medical care.
A program of health-care services made available to medically indigent and other needy persons, regardless of age, under terms of a 1%5 amendment to the US Social Security Act. Medicaid funds are alloted as federal matching payments that vary, according to the state’s per capita income, from 50% to as much as 83% of the cost of administrative and therapeutic services. Medicaid programs cover five basic services: inpatient hospital services, outpatient hospital services, other laboratory and X-ray services, skilled nursing home services, and physician services. Each participating state also is required to provide family-planning services and a program for screening children for physical defects and chronic conditions. States may include a variety of other health-care services on an optional basis.
A joint state and federal health insurance scheme in the United States that provides cover for poorer people in the population.
A federally aided, but state operated and administered, program for providing medical care for certain low-income individuals.
A healthcare program available to people who are on welfare, have dependent children, or are elderly, blind, or disabled.
A state and federal program that pays for the health care of people whose incomes are below an established level.
A program established and financially supported by the federal government of the United States, designed to administer medical aid to individuals with enduring disabilities as well as those with limited financial resources. Medicaid, encompassed within Title XIX of the Social Security Act, serves as the conduit for providing such healthcare assistance.