There are other places to seek help from if you are "caught in the middle". The best service I know that can help you with pregnancy costs is patient advocacy. They will help you reduce both your doctors visits and laboratory work needed. Also, they will negotiate your delivery bill with a hospital of your choice. The best patient advocacy program I know of is MySimpleCard.com
Many temp agencies offer basic hospitalization. However, pregnancy may be seen as a pre-existing condition. You will do best to figure out the cost of everything and arrange financing. You may both have to tighten your belts and eat peanut butter, but you can get it done. Long term, you both need to find jobs that have major medical so that you can care for your child properly.
No. More information would be necessary to give an exact resolution, but you are not allowed to have both private insurance and Medicaid. You can not have both private insurance and medicaid at the same time. That is what is called double dipping. You husbands plan should have an option to "opt-in" to his plan if it is a group medical provided through work.
You can get Medicaid when pregnant if you meet the eligibility requirements - principally, citizenship and limited income/assets. Medicaid can be backdated up to three months prior to the month of your application.You can get Medicaid even if you have insurance; however, your provider(s) must bill your insurance first, prior to billing Medicaid.
The only way to answer that is by calling Medicaid and asking them if you qualify.
You can get Medicaid if you are pregnant, even if you have insurance, if you meet the other factors of eligibility including citizenship/alien status and limited financial resources.
Your wife will have to cancel her Illinois Medicaid and apply in NC.
If your income/assets are below the threshold (typically, 200% of Federal poverty level for a pregnant person), Medicaid should be free. Otherwise, you might owe a "spend down."
Medicaid is exclusively for parents with young children of low-income levels, pregnant women, certain seniors, and people with disabilities. If you are an able bodied person without children between the ages of 21 (or 26 if your parents' insurance will cover you) to 64, you get *nothing*.
you can still apply for it
Yes. Medicaid.
Medicaid based on pregnancy has eligibility rules that are slightly more generous. There is no difference between the two in terms of medical care.
If she is under their insurance that should pick up the bill, if not the pregnant child should be eligible for medicaid for prenatal care and for her unborn child.
No, medicaid is not a federal program. It is a state program.