Medicaid: Who Is Eligible For Medicaid?

People who are not U.S. citizens may be eligible for Medicaid as long as all other Medicaid requirements are met if you fit into one of the following categories:

• Lawful permanent residents.
• Refugees, Asylees, and Cuban and Haitian Entrants.
• People paroled in the US for one year or more.
• People permanently residing in the U.S. under "color of law" (an immigrant whose presence is known to the government and who is allowed to remain in the US with the knowledge and permission of the INS).
• People granted Withholding of Deportation or Withholding of Removal.
• Certain battered spouses and children.

Even if you are an immigrant and don't fit into one of the listed categories, you may be eligible for Emergency Medical Care to treat an Emergency Medical Condition. An Emergency Medical Condition is a medical condition with acute symptoms of such severity, including severe pain, that without immediate medical attention, the result may be one of the following:

• Your health is in serious jeopardy
• There is a threat of serious impairment to bodily functions
• There is a threat of serious dysfunction of any body organ or part.

An alien must prove the existence of the Emergency Medical Condition with a doctor's note which:

• Identifies the emergency medical condition
• Specifies the need for medical treatment resulting from the condition. and
• Provides a date on which the emergency is expected to end. 

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