Denied medicaid and no longer eligible for private marketplace while pregnant
Hi all, I am currently 29 weeks pregnant. Both my husband and I were laid off last year, 5 weeks apart. We quickly filed for unemployment and Medicaid as we were told to by my obgyn and my husband doctor. We also have a 2.5year old son. We submitted documents for Medicaid and provided Ohio with the unemployment letters showing how much we are set to receive and the duration of the payments. Mind you, we started collecting last year for a few weeks.
Yesterday, we were informed we informed we were denied as out total gross for the year was above the threshold as they were calculating weekly payout for 52 weeks, rather than the 20 we will be reviewing from unemployment. My husband and I are expected to make less than $28k but Ohio Medicaid system ran it as making $54k. We tried explaining the letters show we won't be receiving a full years pay and it's jusy partial payout meant to help us until til we land new jobs. They said that's how the system does it and if we do fall off unemployment that we can reapply. They also told us to look at the private marketplace.
After the call, I started to look at the private marketplace. My obgyn is pushing me to get caresource as it is the best for pregnant women. The only problem is that we are not eligible to apply anymore. What do we do? Im so scared.