Marketplace & Medicaid Eligibility: What Definition of Child Applies (January 2015)

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) establishes requirements for dependents as a “qualifying child.” The Medicaid program features various definitions of “child” to determine eligibility for parents and caretaker relatives. However, these definitions don’t always align. The following overview describes and compares the various definitions of “child” to help clarify which applies in a given situation.