My wife used the emergency medicaid when she delivered my son. According to the following explaination, labor and delivery should be defined as emergency medical treatment. Therefore, I should check "NO" to the following question, am I right?
I485 Question:
"Have you received public assistance in the United States from any source, including the United States government or any state, county, city or municipality (other than emergency medical treatment), or are you likely to receive public assistance in the future?"
Explaination:
Emergency Medicaid coverage, however, is limited to medical conditions that meet the definition of an emergency medical condition. An emergency medical condition is defined in the Medicaid statute [42 U.S.C. Section 1396b(v)(3)] and the HCFA State Medicaid Manual (February 1997), Section 3211.11 as:
a medical condition (including labor and delivery) manifesting itself by acute symptoms of sufficient severity (including severe pain) such that the absence of immediate medical attention could reasonably be expected to result in — (A) placing the patient's health in serious jeopardy, (B) serious impairment to bodily functions, or (C) serious dysfunction of any bodily organ or part.
Notably, all labor and delivery is considered emergency labor and delivery.