Obsolete What's New 2017

701-2 Effective Dates of Certification Period

  Table VIII - Date Retention

• Updated time frame time frames of when a client has to pay any outstanding premiums when the case has been closed.
• Updated Table VIII as retention time frames have changed to either being 6 years or permanent.

202-2.1  Lawfully Present Children 203-4  Determining Residency for Individuals Under 21 203-5  Factors Indicating No Intent to Reside in Utah   

• Clarified which nonimmigrant status is not considered a Utah resident.
• Clarified DACA individuals are only eligible for Emergency Medicaid services.

  805  Case Closure

  Clarified when CHIP should be closed in the case of improper coverage.   Also removed obsolete policy.

  Table VIII - Date Retention

  Clarified when data retention time frames start.

Table V -  Telephone Numbers

  Phone numbers for DOH and other agencies were removed from the Welcome Page and incorporated into Table V.

601-1  Cost Sharing Requirements

601-1 Resource - Cost Sharing Requirements

• Cost Sharing contact has been updated.
• Language about monthly medical cards has been removed.

801 Case Records

801-1 Case Record Requirements

Table VIII - Data Retention (New)

  Time frames for data retention have been removed from policy sections and incorporated into a new table.

Table 1 Income Limits

Table 1-A  5% Federal Poverty Level Deduction Amount

Tables were updated with new Federal Poverty Level (FPL).

204-2 Residents of Non-Medical Institutions

204-4 Who is a "Resident" of an Institution?

Table VII - Approved Halfway Houses

Individuals residing in certain types of halfway houses are now eligible for CHIP coverage.  A new table listing the qualified halfway houses has been added.

    215  Relationship 215-1  Parent 215-2  Establishing Parental Relationship (Eliminated) 230-2  Tax Filer's MAGI Household 230-3 Non-Tax Filer's MAGI Household Table VI  Verification and Interface Match

Defined different household relationships and when to take customer statement on questionable relationships.

Clarified who is considered to be a legal parent and how to establish parental relationship.

Updated common law marriage policy in regards to filing a federal tax return and common law marriages established outside the State.  

Clarified the relationship between a minor parent and their parents and the treatment of a pregnant minor's boyfriend.

Clarified how to treat spouses who are separated, not living together and filing a joint tax return.

New policy concerning how to comprise the household size when a child is in the process of being adopted, but the adoption is not yet finalized.

A new table on acceptable verification and interface matching has been added.

400 Income Standards 701-3  What to do With an Application 705  Verification

  Individual with little or no income will need to verify how they are meeting their expenses.