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MEDICAL SERVICES POLICY MANUAL,SECTION K K-200 Non-Title IV-E Adoptive Children With Special Needs

K-200 Non-Title IV-E Adoptive Children With Special Needs

MS Manual 01/01/14 The Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 allows states to provide medical assistance to non-Title IV-E adoptive children with special needs. Medicaid eligibility can be determined, or continued, when an adoption agreement is entered into for non-Title IV-E foster children under age 18 who have special medical or rehabilitative needs that would preclude adoption placement if they were not Medicaid eligible. For the non- Title IV-E Special Needs Adoptive coverage to apply, a child must be receiving Medicaid (in any category) in the month in which the adoption assistance agreement is signed, or received Medicaid in any one of the three months preceding the month of the adoption agreement, or would have been eligible to receive Medicaid (in any category) in the month of the adoption agreement or in any of the three months retroactive to adoption, had application been made.

K-201 Medicaid Category for Non-Title IV-E Special Needs Adoptive Children MS Manual 01/01/14 Medical assistance will be provided to eligible Special Needs Adoptive Children in category 91 - U-18 related.

K-202 Eligibility Requirements MS Manual 01/01/14 The following requirements must bemet to qualify for non-Title IV-E Special Needs Adoptive Children coverage. 1. Age- The non-Title IV-E Special Needs Adoptive Child must be under age 18 (eligibility may continue throughout the month of the 18th birthday) to qualify. Proof of age is required (e.g. birth certificate, court order). 2. Citizenship or alienage requirement (MS D-200). 3. Social Security enumeration requirement (MS D-400). 4. Residency requirement (MS D-300). 5. Assignment of rights to medical support/third party liability requirement (MS D-500). K 201 Medicaid Category for Non Title IV E Special Needs Adoptive Children