Medicaid Coverage in Nebraska
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Medicaid is a joint federal and state insurance program meaning each state has its own set of services that are covered under the insurance. If you qualify for Medicaid, you could be missing out on covered medical care.
What is Medicaid?
Medicaid is a joint federal and state insurance program that gives health coverage to people with limited income and resources. You may be eligible for Medicaid if you are 65 or older, 19 or younger, pregnant, living with a disability, a parent or adult who is caring for at least one child, or an adult with no dependent children (certain states).
What is Covered?
Because Medicaid is a joint federal and state program, there are certain services that states are required to cover, called Mandatory Benefits, and services that each state can choose to cover, called Optional Benefits. Medicaid coverage may look different in each state.
In Nebraska, services covered by Medicaid include:
- ambulance services
- chiropractic services
- dental services
- durable medical equipment, orthotics, prosthetics, and medical supplies
- family planning services
- early and periodic screening, diagnostic, and treatment
- hearing aid services
- home health agency services
- hospice services
- hospital services
- intermediate care facilities (ICF)/ developmental disabilities (DD) services
- lab and radiology services
- medical transportation services
- mental health and substance abuse services for children and adolescents (0-20)
- nurse midwife services
- nurse practitioner services
- nursing facility services
- physician services
- podiatry services
- prescribed drugs
- private-duty nursing services
- adult psychiatric, substance use disorder, and Medicaid rehab option
- screening services (mammograms)
- services provided by clinics
- therapies: physical, occupational, speech pathology, audiology
- vision care services
Sources: Medicare.gov, hhs.gov, dhhs.ne.gov
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