(a) The department of health shall adhere to the following requirements regarding the reasonable opportunity period for verification of United States citizenship or eligible alien status for medicaid: (i) When an applicant's status cannot be verified through available data sources, the department shall provide only a single reasonable opportunity period, consistent with the minimum period required under federal law, for the applicant to provide verification; (ii) Medicaid coverage may only be provided provisionally during the reasonable opportunity period; (iii) Failure to submit acceptable documentation within the reasonable opportunity period required under federal law shall result in denial or termination of medicaid eligibility, subject to required notice; (iv) No additional reasonable opportunity period shall be granted to any applicant for medicaid who has previously been denied eligibility at any time due to a failure to verify citizenship or eligible alien status.
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