Eligibility Requirements
To be eligible, you must meet all of the following requirements:
- You must be a resident of Kansas and a U.S. citizen or national, or person lawfully present in the United States; and
- You must have been uninsured for at least six months prior to applying; and
- You must have a qualifying pre-existing medical condition (see list below) or a denial letter from an insurance company or a letter of acceptance with a reduction or exclusion of coverage for your pre-existing condition.
Eligible pre-existing conditions
If you have been diagnosed with one of the medical conditions listed below and you meet the other eligibility requirements, you automatically qualify for PCIP-KS. A letter from your physician confirming your diagnosis with the physician’s name and address must accompany your application. (A denial letter from an insurance company or letter of acceptance with a reduction or exclusion of coverage for your pre-existing condition will also satisfy the pre-existing condition eligibility requirement.)
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
Alzheimers
Angina Pectoris
Anorexia Nervosa
Arteriosclerosis Obliterans
Artificial Heart Valve
Ascites
Brain Tumors
Cardiomyopathy
Cerebral Palsy
Chronic Pancreatitis
Cirrhosis of the Liver
Coronary Insufficiency
Coronary Occlusion
Crohn's Disease
Cystic Fibrosis
Dermatomyositis
Diabetes
Epilepsy
Friedreichs's Disease
Heart Disorders
Hemophilia
Hepatitis C (Active)
HIV+
Hodgkin's Disease
Huntington's Chorea
Hydrocephalus
Intermittent Claudication
Kidney Failure
Lead Poisoning with Cerebral Involvement
Leukemia
Lupus Erythematosus Disseminate
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Malignant Tumor (if treated or has occurred within last four years)
Mental Retardation
Metastatic Cancer
Motor or Sensory Aphasia
Multiple or Disseminated Sclerosis
Muscular Atrophy or Dystrophy
Myasthenia Gravis
Myotonia
Obesity - Morbid
Open Heart Surgery
Paraplegia or Quadriplegia
Parkinson's Disease
Peripheral Arteriosclerosis (if treatment within last three years)
Poliomyelitis
Polycystic Kidney
Polyarteritis (periarteritis nodosa)
Postero-lateral Sclerosis
Pregnancy
Psychotic Disorders
Rheumatoid Arthritis
Sickle Cell Anemia
Silicosis
Splenic Anemia (True Banti's Syndrome)
Still's Disease
Stroke (CVA)
Syringomyelia
Tabes Dorsalis (locomotor ataxia)
Thalassemia (Cooley's or Mediterranean Anemia)
Topectomy and Lobotomy
Ulcerative Colitis
Wilson's Disease
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