[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 42, Volume 3, Parts 430 to End]
[Revised as of October 1, 1999]
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[CITE: 42CFR440.210]

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PART 440--SERVICES: GENERAL PROVISIONS--Table of Contents
 
      Subpart B--Requirements and Limits Applicable to All Services
 
Sec. 440.210  Required services for the categorically needy.

    (a) A State plan must specify that, at a minimum, categorically 
needy recipients are furnished the following services:
    (1) The services defined in Secs. 440.10 through 440.50, 440.70, and 
(to the extent nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners are authorized to 
practice under State law or regulation) the services defined in 
Secs. 440.165 and 440.166, respectively.
    (2) Pregnancy-related services and services for other conditions 
that might complicate the pregnancy.
    (i) Pregnancy-related services are those services that are necessary 
for the health of the pregnant woman and fetus, or that have become 
necessary as a result of the woman having been pregnant. These include, 
but are not limited to, prenatal care, delivery, postpartum care, and 
family planning services.
    (ii) Services for other conditions that might complicate the 
pregnancy include those for diagnoses, illnesses, or medical conditions 
which might threaten the carrying of the fetus to full term or the safe 
delivery of the fetus; and
    (3) For women who, while pregnant, applied for, were eligible for, 
and received Medicaid services under the plan, all services under the 
plan that are pregnancy-related for an extended postpartum period. The 
postpartum period begins on the last day of pregnancy and extends 
through the end of the month in which the 60-day period following 
termination of pregnancy ends.
    (b) A State plan must specify that eligible aliens as defined in 
Secs. 435.406(a) and 436.406(a) of this subchapter will receive at least 
the services provided in paragraph (a) of this section.
    (c) A State plan must specify that aliens not defined in 
Secs. 435.406(a) and 436.406(a) of this subchapter will only be provided 
the limited services specified in Sec. 440.255.

[56 FR 24010, May 28, 1991, as amended at 60 FR 19862, Apr. 21, 1995]