If children are automatically covered by Medicaid while incarcerated in a state facility, are they eligible for state-supplied vaccine?
If the child is enrolled in Medicaid or a state-sponsored health plan, they are eligible for state-supplied vaccine while incarcerated. Q: One of our county providers is a Juvenile Detention clinic. Nearly all of their patients are “unaccompanied minors,” or kids whose insurance information is impossible to get. Can they automatically categorize all patients as unaccompanied minors? A: If the child is incarcerated in a state facility, they may be automatically considered eligible for Medicaid. In that case, they are eligible for state-supplied vaccine. If the facility cannot determine the insurance status of the child, the child might be considered uninsured and state-supplied vaccines may be used based on that status. Incarcerated children literally are “unaccompanied minors,” and may use state-supplied vaccine based on that status. The status of an unaccompanied minor was specifically designed with HPV vaccine in mind, but could be applied to other vaccines when appropriate. Q: If al
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