Rhode Island Code of Regulations › Title 210 - Executive Office of Health and Human Services › Chapter 10 - EOHHS General Provisions › Subchapter 00 - General Provisions › Part 3 - Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Non-Financial General Eligibility Requirements › Section 210-RICR-10-00-3.4 - Definitions

Current through June 14, 2024
A. As used herein, the following terms shall
				  be construed as follows:
1. "CHIP state plan"
				  means the State of Rhode Island's State Plan identifying the eligibility
				  categories and services authorized for federal financial participation under
				  Title XIX of the Federal Social Security Act establishing the Children's Health
				  Insurance Program (CHIP).
2.
				  "Immigrant" means a non-citizen who has been granted the right by the United
				  States Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) to reside permanently in the
				  United States and to work without restrictions in the United States. Such a
				  person is also known as a Lawful Permanent Resident (LPR). All immigrants are
				  eventually issued a "green card" (USCIS Form I-551), which is the evidence of
				  the non-citizen's LPR status.
3.
				  "Lawfully present" means the status of a non-citizen who has been granted
				  permission to remain in the United States by the USCIS. This status includes
				  immigrant qualified non-citizens who would otherwise be eligible for Medicaid
				  or CHIP coverage if were not for the Federal five (5) year bar and certain
				  nonimmigrants with visas who have been granted permission to live and/or work
				  in the U.S. for a specific purpose and/or on a time-limited basis.
4. "Lawfully residing" means the eligibility
				  category established under the Children's Health Insurance Program
				  Reauthorization Act (CHIPRA) of 2009 that gives States the option to provide
				  coverage to a non-citizen children and pregnant women who are lawfully present
				  and would otherwise be subject to the Federal five (5) year bar.
5. "Medicaid state plan" means State of Rhode
				  Island's State Plan identifying the eligibility categories and services
				  authorized for Federal financial participation under Title XIX of the Federal
				  Social Security Act establishing the Medicaid program.
6. "National" means a person who owes his or
				  her sole allegiance to the United States, including all U.S. citizens, and
				  persons who were born in American Samoa or were born in the Commonwealth of the
				  Northern Mariana Islands who have chosen to be U.S. nationals instead of U.S.
				  citizens.
7. "Non-citizen" means a
				  person who is not a U.S. citizen or national.
8. "Nonimmigrant" means a person who has been
				  granted the right to reside temporarily in the United States for a specific
				  purpose. Each nonimmigrant is admitted into the U.S. in the nonimmigrant status
				  which corresponds to the type of visa issued. The type of visa issued
				  determines whether the nonimmigrant is treated as qualified or non-qualified
				  for Federal means-tested benefit eligibility purposes.
9. "Non-qualified non-citizen" means a
				  nonimmigrant who is not eligible for Federal means tested benefits, an
				  immigrant who is out-of-status, or a non-citizen who has entered the United
				  States illegally or without proper documentation.
10. "Qualified" or "Non-qualified
				  non-citizens" means the terms used in Federal immigration law to categorize
				  immigrant and nonimmigrant non-citizens. The terms do not by themselves
				  indicate whether an immigrant is eligible for benefits. "Qualified,"
				  "non-qualified" and undocumented non-citizens may be eligible for some forms of
				  federally-funded benefits.
11.
				  "United States (U.S.) citizens" means a person who is born in the United
				  States, Puerto Rico, Guam or the U.S. Virgin Islands; or whose parent is a U.S.
				  citizen; or who is a former non-citizen who has been naturalized as a U.S.
				  citizen.