# Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services

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## Timeline

- **2025**: Montana ruled Hailstone ineligible for disability Medicaid — Montana's health department decided Hailstone was no longer eligible for low-cost disability health coverage after learning she had stopped receiving Social Security disability payments.
- **2025**: Coverage switched to CHIP three months before aging out — The state switched Hailstone to the Children's Health Insurance Program, another Medicaid program, three months before she aged out at 19.
- **2021**: Hailstone entered remission from Hodgkin lymphoma — Five years before the 2026 reporting, Taya Hailstone entered remission from childhood Hodgkin lymphoma but was left with lasting damage to her organs and nerves.

## Recent coverage (1 stories)

### Medicaid pulled a 19-year-old cancer survivor's coverage 5 years into remission
2026-09-12 17:54:05 · Sentiment: Neutral · Impact: 5/10 · Sources: 4

Montana's health department terminated a 19-year-old cancer survivor's Medicaid disability coverage without consulting her treating physicians after she stopped SSDI payments to pursue work. The case exposes a benefits cliff and the administrative strain of new federal work requirements that force states to adjudicate medical exemptions for a growing pool of enrollees.
Full story: https://gethealthbrief.com/story/medicaid-cancer-survivor-coverage-loss-montana

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