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 440—SERVICES: GENERAL PROVISIONS > SUBPART B—Requirements and Limits Applicable to All Services (§440.200 to §440.270) > 440.240—Comparability of services for groups.

440.240—Comparability of services for groups.

Except as limited in § 440.250 —
(a) The plan must provide that the services available to any categorically needy recipient under the plan are not less in amount, duration, and scope than those services available to a medically needy recipient; and
(b) The plan must provide that the services available to any individual in the following groups are equal in amount, duration, and scope for all recipients within the group:
(1) The categorically needy.
(2) A covered medically needy group.
[46 FR 47993, Sept. 30, 1981]