003.01(D)(ii) ALLOWABLE MEDICAL EXPENSES.

Any non-reimbursable costs over the monthly amount for allowable items are deducted from the household's income if the cost was incurred by an eligible household member. These items are: (a) Medical care including psychotherapy and rehabilitative costs provided by a licensed medical practitioner; (b) Dental care provided by a licensed medical practitioner; (c) Hospitalization or nursing home care which is paid on behalf of a person who was a household member immediately before entering the hospital or nursing home; (d) Health and hospitalization insurance premiums which cover medical costs; (e) Ambulance insurance premiums; (f) Medicare premiums and any cost sharing copay or spend down expenses incurred by a Medicaid recipient; (g) Animals providing service to disabled persons such as seeing eye dogs, their veterinary fees, food, and other maintenance costs; (h) Prosthetic devices; (i) Dentures; (j) Hearing aids; (k) Transportation to obtain medical treatment, services, or prescriptions. To be deductible, costs for this transportation must be reasonable; (l) The cost of a medic-alert system above the basic telephone rate; (m) The principal, but not the interest, on a loan to cover medical expenses; (n) Corrective footwear, wheelchairs, and other items prescribed by a licensed medical practitioner; (o) Drugs, including over-the-counter, prescribed by a licensed medical practitioner; (p) Eyeglasses prescribed by a physician skilled in eye diseases or by an optometrist; (q) Attendant, housekeeper, or home health aide if the care is needed because of age, infirmity, or illness. When the household supplies a majority, 51%, of an attendant’s meals, the maximum allowable one-person allotment is deducted in addition to the attendant’s wages; (r) Adult day care expenses for the elderly or disabled; (s) Telephone amplifiers, warning signals for handicapped, and costs of typewriter equipment for the deaf, etc.; and (t) Annual enrollment fee for Medicare prescription drug card.