23 Miss. Code. R. 100-8.1 - Coverage of Mandatory and Optional Categorically Needy Individuals
A. The federal government, through passage of
federal laws, defines and describes categorically needy groups that either must
be covered by individual state Medicaid programs or that may be covered by
individual state Medicaid programs at their option.
B. All individual state Medicaid programs
must provide coverage to specified categories of needy individuals that
include: children, pregnant women, parents or caretaker relatives of dependent
children, aged individuals and disabled or blind individuals. Within these
broad categories of coverage, the specific groups covered are either mandatory
or optional.
C. Coverage of
optional categorically needy groups is authorized by the passage of state laws.
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