Apply for Medicaid
(Medical Benefits)
Let’s Find You Some Help
We’ve created a contact form to help you directly get in touch with your local Medicaid Coordinator.
Helping You Stay Healthy
Use Medicaid to Cover Healthcare Costs
Medicaid provides medical benefits to low-income individuals and families.
This federal program provides health care coverage for more than a million residents in Louisiana.
Your benefits can be used at inpatient and outpatient hospital services; physician services; laboratory and x-ray services; long-term care facilities (nursing homes); family planning; services for early periodic screening, diagnosis and treatment (EPSDT) of those under age 21.
Free Application Assistance
Are you eligible for Medicaid?
Simply apply above to find out.
Our network of food banks and other nonprofit organizations are here to help advise Louisiana residents about Medicaid at no charge.
Your local Medicaid Coordinator can help walk you through the entire application process for free.
Don’t Let Your Coverage Expire
Existing Medicaid members need to:
-Keep their contact information up-to-date, including cell phone number and email address
-Check their mail for letters from Louisiana Medicaid/LaCHIP
-Respond to requests for information. Not responding could cause members to lose their health coverage, even if they are eligible.
Our Medicaid Coordinators are here for you. If you have questions regarding a lapse in coverage or need to re-apply for Medicaid, fill out the form above.
Our Medicaid Coordinators are here for you:
“As a Medicaid Outreach Coordinator, I’ve sat across from a teary-eyed single mom, a couple of happily married retirees, a recently released inmate, and many more. Being able to provide face-to-face, human interaction has made a difference in their Medicaid experience…The most profound explanation of what my job description is came from that crying mom who said ‘I can do this, I know how to get on the computer, but I cannot do it alone.’ I was honored to hold her hand while she shared her story. I typed and she talked. We shared our human experience, bonded as moms, and applied for Medicaid for her children all at the same time.”
Medicaid FAQs
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Medicaid eligibility is determined using the Federal Poverty Level Income Guidelines.
In Louisiana you qualify for medicaid if you:
-Receive Supplemental Security Income (SSI) from the Social Security Administration (SSA)
-Get financial help from the Office of Family Support (OFS) through the Family Independence Temporary Assistance Program (FITAP)
You may also qualify for Medicaid if you:
-Are disabled according to the Social Security Administration’s definition
-Have corrected vision no better than 20/200
-Are a low-income parent of children under the age of 19
-Are a child under the age of 19
-Are pregnant
-Have no insurance and need treatment for breast and/or cervical cancer
-Receive Medicare coverage and are low-income, or
-Are aged 19-64 years old, have a household income less than 138% of the federal poverty level, doesn’t already qualify for Medicaid or Medicare, and meet citizenship requirement
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Fill out the form above, and your local Medicaid Outreach Coordinator will be in touch to help you start the application process.
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Your benefits can be used at inpatient and outpatient hospital services; physician services; laboratory and x-ray services; long-term care facilities (nursing homes); family planning; services for early periodic screening, diagnosis and treatment (EPSDT) of those under age 21.
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You are able to apply online or by mail through the Louisiana Department of Health.
However, each Louisiana food bank has a dedicated Medicaid Coordinator to help walk you through the application process or answer any other questions you may have for free!
Fill out the form above to easily get in touch with your local Medicaid Coordinator, or you can also meet with one of our coordinators in-person at one of our Medicaid Outreach Events. Click here for the calendar of upcoming Medicaid Outreach Events.
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When you apply you will need to show:
-Social Security Numbers (or document numbers for any legal immigrants who need insurance)
-Employer and income information for everyone in your family (for example, from paystubs, W-2 forms, or wage and tax statements)
-Policy numbers for any current health insurance
- Information about any job-related health insurance available to your family
About Feeding Louisiana
We are the State Food Bank Association of Louisiana helping provide short-term food relief and advocating for long-term solutions to combat hunger throughout the state.