By skyforbes I received Medicaid for pregnant women throughout my pregnancy and ended up giving birth 6 weeks early. My baby had a 17 day NICU stay. I called 211 around 13 days after giving birth to add my newborn to my Medicaid but was told to call back when my baby gets discharged and is in the home with us. Well fast forward a few months later, I receive a hospital bill for my baby. Hospital billing said Medicaid came back and said that my baby was not covered under Medicaid during her time in the NICU. I look on the YourTexasBenefits website and sure enough, it shows my baby’s coverage starting around 3 months after her birth date. I called Medicaid billing and they said that because I didn’t call to add my baby until weeks later that the coverage didn’t start until then. Well 1) I thought since I was covered under Medicaid at birth that my newborn would automatically be covered from birth and 2) I DID call 13 days after birth to add my baby and it shows under my reported changes that the staff member I spoke to said that “newborn arrived but is not in home yet”. I’m not even sure where to begin to fight this because there is evidence that I did try to add my baby within 2 weeks of her date of birth and I’m pretty sure my newborn should automatically be covered from birth.