Acronyms
Acronym for Maryland Health Connection
What is MHC?
A healthcare company that contracts with the state to provide health services to Medicaid recipients through its network of doctors, hospitals, and other providers.
What is a Managed Care Organization (MCO)?
Acronym for Modified Adjusted Gross Income
What is MAGI?
A written document attesting to a statement.
What is a signed affidavit?
Acronym for Code of Maryland Regulations.
What is COMAR?
Acronym for HBX
What is Health Benefit Exchange?
Someone an applicant chooses to act on their behalf.
What is an Authorized Representative (AREP)?
Acronym for Local Department of Social Services
What is LDSS?
The Maryland unemployment insurance portal, an online system for both claimants and employers to manage unemployment insurance claims and tasks.
What is Beacon?
Acronym for Affordable Care Act
What is the ACA?
What is MA?
The state agency responsible for establishing and maintaining the state-based marketplace for insurance affordability programs, Maryland Health Connection.
What is the Maryland Benefit Exchange (MHBE)?
Acronym for Supplemental Security Income
What is SSI?
The process of renewing Medicaid eligibility, also known as reapplying, recertification, or renewal.
What is a redetermination?
Acronym for Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements
What is SAVE?
Acronym for Maryland Children's Health Program
What is MCHP?
Federally funded nonprofit health centers or clinics that serve medically underserved areas and populations.
What is a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC)?
Acronym for Unemployment Insurance
What is UI?
The availability of coverage for incurred medical expenses covered under the state plan for a period not to exceed 3 months before the month of applicaiton.
What is retroactive coverage (retro)?
Acronym for Medicaid Management Information System
What is MMIS?
Acronym for Public Assistance Reporting System
What is PARIS?
The period of time a person is eligible for Medicaid.
What is a Certification Period?
Acronym for Federal Poverty Level
What is FPL?
A short-term medical program, which allows a consumer to receive Medicaid without providing necessary verification(s).
What is Presumptive Eligibility?
Acronym for Certificate Turn-A-Round Document
What is a CTAD?