422.2717 - State Plan for Medicaid: Inclusion of requirement that independent foster care adolescents are eligible for Medicaid.

422.2717  State Plan for Medicaid: Inclusion of requirement that independent foster care adolescents are eligible for Medicaid.

      1.  The Director shall include in the State Plan for Medicaid a requirement that an independent foster care adolescent is eligible for Medicaid.

      2.  As used in this section, “independent foster care adolescent” means:

      (a) A person described in 42 U.S.C. § 1396d(w)(1), as that section existed on July 1, 2005; or

      (b) If the Director specifies a different category of adolescents in the manner set forth in 42 U.S.C. § 1396a(a)(10)(A)(ii)(XVII), as that section existed on July 1, 2005, a person who is within such a category.

      (Added to NRS by 2005, 2451)