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COMAR 10.09.24.01-.16 3 State of Maryland Medical Assistance Manual Revised July 2012

.02 Definitions

A. In this chapter, the following terms have the meanings indicated. B. Terms Defined. (1) "Aged" means a person who is 65 years old or older.

(2) "Aid to the Permanently and Totally Disabled" means a former category of public assistance mandated under Title XIV of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. §1351 et seq., and replaced by Title XVI of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. §1381 et seq.

(3) "Appeal" means a process by which an applicant, recipient, or representative obtains review of a decision, action, or inaction of the Department or the Local Department of Social Services (LDSS).

(4) "Applicant" means a person whose signed application for Medical Assistance has been submitted to the Local Department of Social Services but has not received final action. This includes a person, who need not be alive at the time of application, whose application is submitted through a representative.

(5) "Application" means the filing of a signed application form for Medical Assistance at the local department of social services or its designee.

(6) "Application date" means the date on which a signed application is received by the local department of social services.

(7) "Application form" means the form designated by the Local Department of Social Services to be completed, signed, and submitted to the local department of social services, or a designee, as an official application for Medical Assistance.

(8) "Assistance unit" means one person, or a group of persons whose eligibility for Medical Assistance benefits is determined in conjunction with each other.

(9) "Blindness" means a condition in which a person is certified by an ophthalmologist as having either central visual acuity of 20/200 or less in the better eye with correcting glasses, or a field defect in which the peripheral field has contracted to such an extent that the widest diameter of the visual field subtends an angular distance of no greater than 20 degrees.

(10) Caretaker Relative.

(a) "Caretaker relative" means a parent or other person related by blood, marriage, or adoption and living with and caring for an unmarried child younger than 21 years old who is deprived of parental support due to death, continued absence from the home, incapacitation of a parent, or unemployment of the principal wage earner parent. A parent whose absence is occasioned solely