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Morris County's Indigent Health Care Program is the payor of last resort for eligible Morris County community members who meet the program's eligibility criteria. The Indigent Health Care Program is administered based on Chapter 61 Indigent Health Care and Treatment Act. Covered services must be medically necessary and provided by a member of the medical community who will accept the program as a funding source.
Since the program is the payor of last resort, applicants and clients will be required to seek and accept any income or other benefits they are legally entitled to, such as but not limited to, programs with Health Humans Services Commission (Medicaid or Temporary Aid to Needy Families), Social Security Administration programs (SSI, SSDI, Survivors and/or Retirement Benefits), Crime Victims Compensation, and Veteran’s Administration.
ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA
Residence: The applicant must live in the county in which s/he applies and must intend to remain there. Applicant may not move to the county for the program.
Household: A CIHCP household is a person living alone or two or more persons living together where legal responsibility for support exists, excluding disqualified persons. A disqualified person is one who receives or is categorically eligible to receive Medicaid.
Resources: A household is eligible if the total countable household resources do not exceed $3,00.00 when a person who is aged or disabled and who meets relationship requirements lives in the home or $2,000.00 for all other households.
Income:
A household is eligible if its monthly net income (unearned income) does not exceed 21% of the Federal Poverty Guideline (FPG).
A household is eligible if its monthly net income (earned income) does not exceed 50% of the Federal Poverty Guideline (FPG).
BASIC HEALTHCARE SERVICES
- Physician services include services ordered and performed by a physician that are within the scope of practice of their profession as defined by state law.
- Annual physical examinations are examinations provided once per calendar year by a physician or a physician assistant. Associated testing, such as mammograms, can be covered with a physician referral.
- Immunizations are given when appropriate.
- Medical screening services include blood pressure, blood sugar, and cholesterol screening.
- Laboratory and x-ray services are professional and technical serviced ordered and provided under the personal supervision of a physician in a setting other than a hospital (inpatient or outpatient).
- Family planning services are preventive health care services that assist an individual in controlling fertility and achieving optimal reproductive and general health.
- Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) services must be medically necessary, ordered by a physician, and provided in the SNF that provides daily services on an inpatient basis.
- Prescriptions This service includes up to three prescription drugs per month. New and refilled prescriptions county equally toward this three prescription drugs per month total. Drubs must be prescribed by a physician or other practitioner within the scope of practice under law.
- Rural Health Clinic services must be provided in a freestanding or hospital-based rural health clinic by physician, a physician assistant, an advanced practice nurse, or a visiting nurse.
- Inpatient hospital services must be medically necessary and provided in an acute care hospital to hospital inpatients, by or under the direction of a physician, and for the care and treatment of patients.
- Outpatient hospital services must be medically necessary and provided in an acute care hospital to hospital outpatients, by or under the direction of a physician, and must be diagnostic, therapeutic, or rehabilitative. Outpatient hospital services include hospital-based ambulatory surgical center (HASC) services.
OPTIONAL HEALTHCARE SERVICE provided
- Limited eyecare pertaining to diabetes, glaucoma, and cataracts