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a. General eligibility factors. All persons seeking initial or continuing Medicaid LTSS must meet the general requirements for the program related to residency, citizenship and immigration status, and Social Security Numbers and the like. The application form must be completed and signed along with the authorizations necessary to conduct electronic data matches to verify income and resources; and to request personal health information to assess and review clinical/functional level of need. General eligibility factors for MACC MAGI-based LTSS eligibility are located in § 30- 00-1.5(C) of this Title and for SSI-based LTSS eligibility in Part 5 of this Subchapter. Existing beneficiaries seeking LTSS must only update general eligibility information if there have been changes since the point of their last renewal. b. Clinical/functional eligibility factors. An assessment of clinical and functional needs serves as the basis for a level of care determination and is conducted for all persons seeking Medicaid LTSS, without regard to eligibility pathway. This assessment is based on needs-based criteria that evaluate clinical, functional, social and behavioral needs as well as environmental factors. A Medicaid Assessment and Review Team (MART) determination of disability status is not required unless the applicant is seeking LTSS coverage while working through the Sherlock Plan or unless the applicant has been deemed to have a disability by the Social Security Administration. In response to the novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19), until the end of the Federal declaration of the COVID-19 public health emergency, EOHHS will temporarily conduct level of care determinations/redeterminations for all LTSS eligibility pathways via phone and physician records. The responsibilities for assessing need vary for each institutional level of care as follows: (1) Nursing Facility. The State established clinical and functional disability criteria under the Section 1115 waiver which assess the scope of a beneficiary’s need for a NF level of care. The EOHHS is responsible for assessing the level of need of persons seeking Medicaid coverage of LTSS typically provided in a NF and long-term hospital care, including home and community-based alternatives. As indicated in Part 5 of this Subchapter, the scope of a person's clinical/functional need for a NF level of care (high or highest) affects the type of LTSS available to the person and thus the choice of setting (institutional and/or HCBS). (2) Intermediate care facilities for persons with intellectual disabilities. The BHDDH uses needs-based criteria to evaluate clinical/functional eligibility for the ICF/ID level of