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Florida

Eligibility¹

Children's Medicaid2	Separate Children's CHIP2	Pregnant Women3	Parents4
0-1: 200% 1-5: 133% 6-19: 100%	200%	185%	21%

Enrollment Procedures for Children⁵

Program Type6	Joint Application	Face-to-Face Interview7	Asset Test8	Administrative Verification of Income9	Presumptive Eligibility
COMBO	Yes	No	No	Yes	No

Renewal Procedures for Children⁵

Frequency of Renewal (in months)	12-month Continuous Eligibility	Joint Renewal Form	Face-to-Face Interview7	Administrative Verification of Income9
12	CHIP only10	No	No	Medicaid only11

Waiting Period

Waiting Period	Length
Yes	60 days

Enrollment Procedures for Parents¹²

Family Application	Face-to-Face Interview7	Asset Test8
No	No	$2,000

Renewal Procedures for Parents¹²

Frequency of Renewal (in months)	Face-to-Face Interview7
1213	No

Enrollment Procedures for Pregnant Women¹⁴

Presumptive Eligibility	Asset Test15
Yes	No

Source: D. Cohen Ross & C. Marks, "Challenges of Providing Health Coverage for Children and Parents in a Recession," Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, (January 2009); updated by the Center for Children and Families.

Notes:
1: Income eligibility levels noted are in effect as of July 2009 and expressed as a percentage of the Federal Poverty Level (FPL), without regard to income disregards or deductions.
2: Income eligibility levels for children's Medicaid includes CHIP-funded Medicaid expansions; separate CHIP programs are shown under children’s CHIP. Florida operates two separate CHIP-funded programs. Healthy Kids covers children ages five through 19, as well as younger siblings in some locations. Medi-Kids covers children ages one through four.
3: Pregnant women's income eligibility levels are shown for regular Medicaid and CHIP (through the unborn child option).
4: Parents' income eligibility levels are shown for parents without earned incomes (i.e., does not reflect earnings disregards used to determine income eligibility for working parents) applying for comprehensive Medicaid coverage based on a family size of three.
5: Data as of July 2009. Information applies to both Medicaid and CHIP, if applicable, unless otherwise noted.
6: Program type as approved by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, reported in V. Smith, et al., "SCHIP Enrollment in June 2007: An Update on Current Enrollment and SCHIP Policy Directions," Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured (January 2008), updated by the Center for Children and Families.
7: Families that submit applications that don't appear to be prone to error or fraud, known as "green track" applications, are not required to do an interview.
8: Asset limits noted are for a family of three.
9: In states with administrative verification, families do not have to provide verification of income, and such states generally verify this information by accessing data from other government agencies.
10: In Medicaid, children under 5 receive 12 months of continuous eligibility and children 5 and older receive 6 months of continuous eligibility.
11: Families with children on Medicaid who were enrolled through the CHIP process are only required to verify new sources of income at renewal, whereas families with children on Medicaid who were enrolled through a local office must provide verification of income at renewal.
12: Data as of July 2009. Information for parents refer to enrollment/renewal procedures under regular Medicaid; some states have expanded Medicaid for parents (through waivers or state funds) and procedures under the expansion may be different than the procedures for regular Medicaid.
13: In Florida, parents who are enrolled in Medicaid, who do not receive other benefits such as food stamps or TANF, have a 12-month renewal period.
14: Data as of July 2009.
15: With the exception of Arkansas, all states with an asset test for pregnancy coverage rely on a standard limit regardless of family size.