A new federal law is in place to obtain Medicaid (in Massachusetts we call our Medicaid program MassHealth, so from now on in this article we will refer to Medicaid as MassHealth). If you already have MassHealth or are applying for MassHealth you will be asked to document your U. S. citizenship and identity. However, if you are enrolled in Medicare or receive Supplement Security Income (SSI), or are a “Qualified Alien,” this new law will not affect you.
The best way to show your citizenship and identity are:
If you don’t have the above papers you can:
Document citizenship with
And then document your identity with
Even if you don’t have any of the documentation listed above, there are other ways to show MassHealth your identity and your U.S. citizenship. MassHealth is instructed to assist people with disabilities in finding those documents.
(Adapted from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services website. For more information, please visit http://www.cms.hhs.gov )
February 2007
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