Is It Possible to Reinstate Medicaid After It is Cancelled

[irishsun77]

My question involves public health law in the State of: Florida

I was out of work and I applied for Medicaid last year for my children and they were approved, since then I have moved out of state to start a job and have been working since, the father of my children decided to stay behind and keep two of our children that were with him, instead of coming out to where I was working and living with our youngest daughter. Since I am no longer living in Florida and the two older children are not living with me, Florida's medicaid cancelled the insurance for all three of our children. I made that aware to their father and told him if he wanted to get medicaid for them he would have to apply to get it, well he does not pay taxes and claim his income. So I live in NM and they sent the cancellation letters to my address here in NM, well about 2 weeks ago I received 3 letters from the Florida medicaid office, one for one child, another for the other child and one addressed to their father. I opened the 2 that were addressed to my children and it basically said the old medicaid numbers (the ones I applied for) were no longer valid and the request to re-instate their medicaid was approved and they had new numbers and would be receiving their cards shortly in the mail. I am assuming that is the letter that was addressed to him (which I did not open) but you can feel 2 cards (like credit cards) in the envelope. Sorry for the long explanation, but my question is: is it possible for him to re-instate their medicaid insurance if 1. he is not on their birth certificates? 2. He was not on the medicaid application or file? 3. He does not file income taxes? and 4. Why would the re-instated medicaid insurance come to my address in NM addressed to him for Florida medicaid insurance just for our two oldest and not our youngest and not his home address in Florida?
Thank you for your time

[Mr. Knowitall]

If you want to know what your ex- is doing in relation to Medicaid, ask him or ask the Medicaid office. We have even less access to the mystery envelope than you do.

[Lehk]

1: i have never heard of being required to be on a birth certificate for medicaid (the program is a bit different in every state though) as long as he has custody

2: does he have custody now? if so i wouild assume he can

3: not filing income taxes would likely get him in trouble with the IRS

3a: if he fails to report income to medicaid he could be in a world of shit with the state of florida as well.

4: call the medicaid office and find out

[Mr. Knowitall]

It sounds like he has nothing to point to that would establish a relationship - no claim of the child as a dependent, no established paternity, no court orders... But we can only guess.

[jk]

I was out of work and I applied for Medicaid last year for my children and they were approved, since then I have moved out of state to start a job and have been working since, the father of my children decided to stay behind and keep two of our children that were with him, instead of coming out to where I was working and living with our youngest daughter.

so, were you living with him in Florida? If so, he was required to be listed on the medicaid application when you filed. If you weren't living with him and the 2 children were with him, there would be a problem there as well.

Sounds like something in Florida might not have been on the up and up to start with and it is simply being continued.