NYSHIP

NYS Health Insurance Program Dependent Eligibility Verification Project

 

NYSHIP is conducting a Dependent Eligibility Verification Project to help ensure that every participant who receives benefits is entitled to those benefits. You will soon be receiving a packet in the mail at home requesting your action. You have until October 5, 2009 to submit your Dependent Eligibility Confirmation Form and supporting documents. Please review the packet and directions carefully and call the NYSHIP Dependent Eligibility Project Service Center at 1-888-358-2198 with questions. Agents are available to answer your questions from 12:00 noon to 8:00 p.m., Monday through Friday.

Important Notes:
• Please mark out all financial information and the first five digits of all Social Security numbers.
• Send copies—not originals—of official documents. Original documents will not be returned. Documentation with missing signatures, dates, seals or other needed and applicable information will not be accepted.
• Birth certificates must list parent(s) names. If you have the “short form” birth certificate, which does not include the parents’ names, you will be required to obtain the long form birth certificate. The following web sites can help you obtain the long form birth certificate. Please allow the necessary time to receive and submit your documentation:
– National Center for Health Statistics web site: www.cdc.gov/nchs/w2w.htm (click the appropriate state for information)
– Vitalchek’s web site: www.vitalchek.com
– www.travel.state.gov/passport/services/cert/cert_2257.html
• All non-English documents must be provided with an official translation and bear the stamp and mark of a registered translator. You may contact a local college, university or translator services company for assistance. You or a family member cannot translate the documents. If you send non-English documents that have not been translated, your dependent will be marked as incomplete until the official translation is received.

Please go to http://www.cs.state.ny.us/nyshipeligibilityproject/index.cfm for the most up-to-date information.