How to Apply
- To apply for Iowa Medicaid health coverage, please visit the HHS Benefits Portal or fill out a paper application form and turn it into your local HHS office.
- Para solicitar la cobertura de salud de Medicaid de Iowa, visite el Portal de beneficios del HHS o complete un formulario de solicitud en papel y entréguelo en su oficina local del HHS.
Mission and Vision
Mission: Iowa Medicaid is committed to ensuring that all members have equitable access to high quality services that promote dignity, barriers are removed to increase health engagement, and whole person health is improved across populations.
Vision: Iowa Medicaid works diligently to operate a fiscally responsible and sustainable program that improves the lives of its members through effective internal and external collaboration, innovative solutions to identified challenges and data driven program improvement.
- View the Iowa Medicaid Strategic Plan
What is Medicaid?
Iowa Medicaid provides health coverage to over 700,000 Iowans every year, including eligible low-income adults, children, pregnant women, older adults and people with disabilities.
Medicaid is administered by states, according to federal requirements. The program is funded jointly by states and the federal government.
Iowa Medicaid is a collection of specific units, each having an area of expertise, and all working together to accomplish the goals of the Medicaid program.