Washington Apple Health

Washington Apple Health is the Medicaid and State [Children's Health Insurance Program]s offered in Washington state. The program was initiated on January 1, 2014. It was preceded in 2008 by a children's health plan run by the Washington [State Department of Social and Health Services] called "Apple Health for Kids". In 2016, the plan was ordered by a Federal district court judge to include a coverage treatment with a certain drug for Hepatitis C to all 28,000 patients with the disease, not only those who qualified based on degree of liver damage. As a Medicaid program, recipients of benefits will be subject to Medicaid [estate recovery|estate recovery] by the DSHS Office of Financial Recovery.