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MEDICAL SERVICES POLICY MANUAL,SECTION O

O 400 Medically Needy Eligibility Determination

O-450 Medically Needy - Under 18 Categorical Relatedness MS Manual 01/27/16 The individual or family must meet the following factors of eligibility to be certified as U-18 Medically Needy. 1. Age Requirement - under 18 years old. 2. Relationship Requirement and Living with Specified Relative (Re. MS F-110). (These do not apply to individuals who are emancipated or who have been removed from the custody of their parents by court order). 3. Citizenship or Alienage Requirement (Re. MS D-200). 4. Residence Requirement (Re. MS D-300). 5. Social Security Enumeration Requirement (Re. MS D-400). 6. Assignment of rights to Medical Support/Third Party Liability Requirement (Re. MS D-500). 7. Cooperation in Child Support Enforcement Activities (Re. MS F-130). 8. Resource Limitations of the Medically Needy Program (Re. MS O-600). 9. Computation of Income - Earned and Unearned (Re. MS O-420). Resource eligibility for the U-18 Medically Needy is determined by computing countable resources as specified under MS Appendix N and comparing them with the Medically Needy Resource limitations specified under MS O-600. There is no applicable transfer of resource provision which applies to U-18-MN, i.e., if uncompensated transfers have occurred, no periods of ineligibility will be imposed.

O-451 Medically Needy - Foster Care MS Manual 01/01/23 Foster Children (Re. MS B-400) who do not meet the income, or resource need requirements, or both, of State FC (U-18 criteria – Re. MS 0-143) or of Title IV-E-FC may be considered for Medically Needy FC - EC or SD by comparing income and resources to the Medically Needy MNIL and MNRL. The Division of Children and Family Services (DCFS) will determine IV-E and Health Care eligibility for Foster Children.

Each child will be evaluated as a one-person household unit against the appropriate criteria. Consideration of parental income and resources will cease effective the month a child enters Foster Care by the Court awarding custody to the Agency. A child taken into foster care on the