[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 42, Volume 3]

[Revised as of October 1, 2005]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 42CFR440.210]



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                         TITLE 42--PUBLIC HEALTH

 

  CHAPTER IV--CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF 

                  HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (CONTINUED)

 

PART 440_SERVICES: GENERAL PROVISIONS--Table of Contents

 

      Subpart B_Requirements and Limits Applicable to All Services

 

Sec. 440.210  Required services for the categorically needy.



    (a) A State plan must specify that, at a minimum, categorically 

needy recipients are furnished the following services:

    (1) The services defined in Sec. Sec. 440.10 through 440.50, 

440.70, and (to the extent nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners are 

authorized to practice under State law or regulation) the services 

defined in Sec. Sec. 440.165 and 440.166, respectively.

    (2) Pregnancy-related services and services for other conditions 

that might complicate the pregnancy.

    (i) Pregnancy-related services are those services that are necessary 

for the health of the pregnant woman and fetus, or that have become 

necessary as a result of the woman having been pregnant. These include, 

but are not limited to, prenatal care, delivery, postpartum care, and 

family planning services.

    (ii) Services for other conditions that might complicate the 

pregnancy include those for diagnoses, illnesses, or medical conditions 

which might threaten the carrying of the fetus to full term or the safe 

delivery of the fetus; and

    (3) For women who, while pregnant, applied for, were eligible for, 

and received Medicaid services under the plan, all services under the 

plan that are pregnancy-related for an extended postpartum period. The 

postpartum period begins on the last day of pregnancy and extends 

through the end of the month in which the 60-day period following 

termination of pregnancy ends.

    (b) A State plan must specify that eligible aliens as defined in 

Sec. Sec. 435.406(a) and 436.406(a) of this subchapter will receive at 

least the services provided in paragraph (a) of this section.

    (c) A State plan must specify that aliens not defined in Sec. Sec. 

435.406(a) and 436.406(a) of this subchapter will only be provided the 

limited services specified in Sec. 440.255.



[56 FR 24010, May 28, 1991, as amended at 60 FR 19862, Apr. 21, 1995]