A Quick and Easy Method of Screening for Medicaid Eligibility under the Pickle Amendment: 2025 Update

Executive Summary

With help from Gordon Bonnyman from the Tennessee Justice Center, National Health Law Program provides the 2025 updated “A Quick and Easy Method of Screening for Medicaid Eligibility under the Pickle Amendment,” a screening tool and chart to determine if clients may be Medicaid eligible under the Pickle Amendment. The screening process will eliminate the great majority of those who are not eligible without the necessity of performing any mathematical calculations. Our 2025 update can be accessed here.