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Revision 20-0; Effective November 2019
2210 General Principles
Revision 20-0; Effective November 2019
A County Indigent Health Care Program (CIHCP) household is a person living alone, or two or more persons living together, where legal responsibility for support exists, excluding disqualified persons.
Legal responsibility for support exists between:
- Persons who are legally married, (including common-law marriage);
- A legal parent and a minor child, (including unborn children); or
- A managing conservator and a minor child.
Medicaid is the only program that disqualifies a person from CIHCP.
2220 CIHCP Household
Revision 23-4; Effective Sept. 22, 2023
Disqualified Persons
- A person who receives or is categorically eligible to receive Medicaid.
- A person who receives SSI benefits.
- A person who receives Qualified Medicare Beneficiary (QMB), Medicaid Qualified Medicare Beneficiary (MQMB), Specified Low-Income Medicare Beneficiary (SLMB), Qualified Individual-1 (QI-1), or Qualified Disabled and Working Individual (QDWI) and a Medicaid recipient who partially exhausts some component of their Medicaid benefits.
A disqualified person is not a CIHCP household member regardless of their legal responsibility for support.
CIHCP One-Person Household
- A person living alone
- An adult living with others who are not legally responsible for the adult’s support
- A minor child living alone or with others who are not legally responsible for the child’s support
- A Medicaid ineligible spouse
- A Medicaid ineligible parent whose spouse or minor children are Medicaid eligible
- A Medicaid ineligible foster child
- An inmate in a county jail
CIHCP Group Households
Two or more persons who are living together and meet one of the following descriptions:
- Two persons legally married to each other
- One or both legal parents and their legal minor children
- A managing conservator and a minor child and the conservator’s spouse and other legal minor children, if any
- Minor children, including unborn children, who are siblings
- Both Medicaid ineligible parents of Medicaid eligible children
2230 Screening Tools
Revision 23-4; Effective Sept. 22, 2023
Your Texas Benefits at http://www.yourtexasbenefits.com screens for potential eligibility for Medicaid and other programs provided by Texas state agencies.
The Benefit Eligibility Screening Tool (BEST) at http://www.ssabest.benefits.gov screens for potential eligibility for benefits from any of the programs that Social Security administers.
2240 Verifying Household
Revision 23-4; Effective Sept. 22, 2023
Verify household, if questionable. Proof may include, but is not limited to:
- lease agreement; or
- statement from a landlord, neighbor or other reliable source.
2250 Documenting Household
Revision 23-4; Effective Sept. 22, 2023
On Form 3065, Worksheet, document why information regarding household is questionable and how questionable household is verified.