Medicaid length of stay residency requirements - federal regulation name/number?
I'm having difficulty with my Medicaid application for pregnancy. Online I keep finding the statement that "federal law prohibits states from imposing length of stay residency requirements." That would greatly help my case, but for the life of me I can't find the name/number of the federal regulation in which this is stated. Can anyone help me out? I think it would make it harder for my case worker to dispute if I could tell her that she only needs to look in Federal Code XYZ, §135a (just an example) to see that how long I'm in the state is irrelevant as long as I can prove residency (which I can).
To Grace: When my case worker called on Friday with the issue, she basically already implied that I will be ineligible. She said she would talk to her supervisor about it, but that she doesn't think I can be considered a resident since I know that I will be leaving the state before I give birth. However, I am a resident now and can offer proof of residency. That's why I wanted to know the code - so that if she calls and says she and her supervisor decided to deny me, I can refer to it when arguing that since I am at the current time a resident, they cannot deny me based on the fact that I won't be a resident in a few months.
And after making a pretty big fuss about it on Friday and telling me that she didn't think I would be considered eligible, when she called back this morning all she said was they had decided to give me the card (she didn't sound happy about it, but maybe she was just in a bad mood). So nevermind!