Indigent Health Care Available
By law, Glasscock County provides a County Indigent Health Care Program (CIHCP) to help people pay for needed health care. Whether a person can get this help depends on ones income and what is owned, place of residence, other help one receives or could receive, and other items.
Applicants may be asked to provide proof of what he/she writes on the application or tells the interviewing person. Examples of some items an applicant may be asked to prove are: place of residence; owned property and what it is worth; income and other health care coverage. Applicants will be given help in getting proof as needed.
An applicant must give information about health care insurance and any other third party financially liable for health care services paid by the county for the applicant and members of his/her household. By signing and submitting the application, the applicant agrees to give the county the right to recover the cost of health care services provided by the county from any third party.
Applicants may be asked to apply for Medicaid, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families or Supplemental Security Income benefits. If he/she is not eligible for these other programs, has answered all the questions on the application, and has provided all the proof asked for, the application can be processed. Eligibility is determined within 14 days.
Applications for the program are available in the county judge’s office in the county courthouse in Garden City. For more information, call or come by County Judge Wilburn Bednar’s office, 432/354-2382 from 8:30 a.m. to noon, Monday – Friday, except holidays.