The MAGI Medicaid groups include: Adults without Dependent Children (ages 21-64), Children (0-18), Children aged 19-20, Parent/Caretaker Relatives and Pregnant Women.
Download an application from districtdirect.dc.gov
Mail your original, signed application (and appendices, if applicable) to:
For answers to your questions on how to apply, please call the Department of Human Services Economic Security Administration Public Benefits Call Center at (202) 727-5355.
After you submit your application, it can take up to 45 days (or 60 days if you are disabled) for you to hear whether you have been approved for enrollment into the Medicaid program. If you are approved, you will receive a membership card. The Medicaid program requires you to renew your eligibility each year to ensure that you are still eligible to receive Medicaid benefits.
How to Apply for Non-MAGI- Medicaid?The Non-MAGI Medicaid groups include: SSI recipients, Aged, Blind, and Disabled individuals, Foster Care (IV-E or Non-IV-E), Spend Down, Breast and Cervical Cancer, Long Term Care beneficiaries, and Qualified Medicare Beneficiaries (QMB) and Qualified Medicare Beneficiaries Plus beneficiaries. SSI recipients, Optional State Supplement Payment recipients, and children and youth in foster care are categorically eligible for Medicaid and do not have to submit a DC Health Link or Integrated Application for Medical Assistance.
Mail your completed and, signed integrated application for medical assistance (and appendices, if applicable) to the following address: