CFR > Title 42 - Public Health > CHAPTER IV—CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES > SUBCHAPTER C—MEDICAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS (parts 430 to 456) > PART 435—ELIGIBILITY IN THE STATES, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, THE NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS, AND AMERICAN SAMOA > SUBPART D—Optional Coverage of the Medically Needy (§435.300 to §435.350) > 435.340—Protected medically needy coverage for blind and disabled individuals eligible in December 1973.

435.340—Protected medically needy coverage for blind and disabled individuals eligible in December 1973.

If an agency provides Medicaid to the medically needy, it must cover individuals who—
(a) Where eligible as medically needy under the Medicaid plan in December 1973 on the basis of the blindness or disability criteria of the AB, APTD, or AABD plan;
(b) For each consecutive month after December 1973, continue to meet—
(1) Those blindness or disability criteria; and
(2) The eligibility requirements for the medically needy under the December 1973 Medicaid plan; and
(c) Meet the current requirements for eligibility as medically needy under the Medicaid plan except for blindness or disability criteria.
[46 FR 47987, Sept. 30, 1981]