Definitions for Medicaid

Medicaid Med·i·caid

Spelling: [med-i-keyd]
IPA: /ˈmɛd ɪˌkeɪd/

Medicaid is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 159 anagrams from letters in Medicaid (acddeiim).

Definitions for Medicaid

noun

  1. a U.S. government program, financed by federal, state, and local funds, of hospitalization and medical insurance for persons of all ages within certain income limits.

Origin of Medicaid

medic(al) + aid

Examples for Medicaid

More importantly, Medicaid served as a secondary insurance to his primary insurance.

You might think that the reason Medicaid does not require coverage of HCBS is because institutional care is cheaper.

However, since he was living at home, our income and assets disqualified him from SSI and Medicaid.

Medicaid is required to cover people in skilled nursing facilities, that is, institutions.

But we must not abandon our fundamental obligations to the people who need Medicare and Medicaid.

As of 2012, there are over 523,000 people across the country on Medicaid waiver lists; over 309,000 of those people have I/DD.

Because Medicaid is not required to cover HCBS, because a waiver is not an entitlement, there are long waits for waivers.

This plan will balance the budget and invest in our people while protecting Medicare, Medicaid, education and the environment.

Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid are commitments of conscience, and so it is our duty to keep them permanently sound.

Now that I am free, I have Medicaid and doctors no longer assume I am malingering.

Word Value for Medicaid
Scrable

14

Words with friends

16

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