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Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services Obsolete Medicaid Eligibility Handbook For the current MEH, see http://www.emhandbooks.wi.gov/meh-ebd/ For the current BC Plus Handbook, see http://www.emhandbooks.wi.gov/bcplus/ |
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The Navigation Pane is located on the left side of your browser. It shows the structure of the handbook with a series of books, subfolders, and policy pages. The default view when you open the handbook is to the "Contents" which shows the navigation pane and the policy pane The right side of the online handbook where the policy page appears. homepage. To see this view after clicking on other views or searching, click on "Contents" in the toolbar.
Click on a closed book to open it and see the contents. A book may contain a policy page or a subfolder. Once a book is opened, the icon changes to an opened book. Click on a subfolder until you get to the lowest level of organization, the policy page.
When you click on a policy page, the policy will appear on the right side of your browser window. This is called the policy pane.
You can resize the navigation pane or policy pane by clicking on the vertical line that divides them. Click and hold your left mouse button on this bar and drag to the left or right as needed. You can even close the navigation pane to allow you to see more of the policy pane. Do this by clicking on the X in the upper right hand corner of the navigation pane. To see the navigation pane again, you must click "refresh" in your browser's toolbar.
Medicaid policy appears on the right side of the web browser in the policy pane. Each web page has a header that shows that you're in the Department of Health and Family Services' Medicaid Eligibility Handbook. The chapter name and number appears in the upper left-hand corner. Every policy page in the handbook will have a number with 2 decimal points. The first number represents the main chapter number. The second number represents the subchapter. The third number represents a subsection.
For example 3.3.2 Recovery of Birth Costs shows that this policy page is in Chapter 3 Nonfinancial Requirements. It's also within subchapter 3.3 Medical Support Liability. It is the second subsection of 3.2 Medical Support Liability, hence the name 3.3.2.
Anytime you see text in the policy pane that is yellow highlighted, you will know that this text is new for this current release. Every time a release is made, the yellow highlighter is removed and only the information that changes for the new release is highlighted. To see when other policy was updated, look in the Blue Sheets or the View History section of the policy page.
The bottom right-hand side of each policy pane contains a footer that tells you:
The most recent release number on which this policy was changed
The most recent release date on which this policy was changed
The most recent effective date on which this policy was changed
The toolbar is the top row of the handbook and it contains links to:
Contents
PDF Versions
The Eligibility Management (EM) homepage
Sometimes after working in the Medicaid Eligibility Handbook, you have many folders and subfolders open. It may be difficult to see where exactly you are within the handbook. Click on "Refresh" in your browser to clean up your workspace. By doing this, only the path to the policy page you are on will appear. If you chose to close your navigation pane, it will reappear after clicking refresh and only the folders leading to your current policy page will remain open.