America’s Health Insurance Plans (É«¿Ø´«Ã½) responded to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) request for comments on its proposed rule to revise categorical eligibility of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
É«¿Ø´«Ã½ believes that stakeholders and the public should be aware of some key intersections
between SNAP and the Medicaid program. Medicaid provides a broad range of medical and behavioral health and long-term care services to approximately 74 million low income
Americans in the 56 states and U.S territories. Many state Medicaid programs use SNAP eligibility information to verify a person’s initial eligibility for Medicaid and their periodic recertifications of eligibility thereafter.