FAQs

You can NOT keep getting benefits while you wait for an appeal if:

·         You ask for an appeal after the day your benefits are scheduled to stop or decrease;,

·         Your application was denied;,

·         Your benefits stopped because the approval period ended;,

·         You got the maximum benefits you were allowed to get; or

·         The law changed.

Health-e-Arizona Plus cannot accept an incomplete application for Medical Assistance, but you can submit an incomplete application online for Nutrition Assistance and Cash Assistance.

We need a completed application before we can know if you are eligible for benefits. An incomplete application must contain at least your name, address, signature, and the date you signed it in order to save the date of your application.

An incomplete paper application may be submitted for all programs.

Copayments

American Indian AHCCCS members do not have to pay AHCCCS Medical Assistance copayments if they ever received services at the following:

·         Indian Health Service tribal health programs, or

·         urban Indian health programs

Note: This does not mean they are exempt from Medicare Part B copayments.

Premiums

American Indian AHCCCS members do not have to pay premiums for AHCCCS Medical Assistance if they:

·         Are eligible to receive services at a Indian Health Service tribal health programs, or urban Indian health programs, and  

·         Have given us proof of their tribal membership