List of Medicaid Benefits
The list below outlines mandatory Medicaid benefits, which states are required to provide under federal law, and optional benefits that states may cover if they choose.
Mandatory Benefits | Optional Benefits |
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Inpatient hospital services | Prescription Drugs |
Outpatient hospital services | Clinic services |
EPSDT: Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment Services | Physical therapy |
Nursing Facility Services | Occupational therapy |
Home health services | Speech, hearing and language disorder services |
Physician services | Respiratory care services |
Rural health clinic services | Other diagnostic, screening, preventive and rehabilitative services |
Federally qualified health center services | Podiatry services |
Laboratory and X-ray services | Optometry services |
Family planning services | Dental Services |
Nurse Midwife services | Dentures |
Certified Pediatric and Family Nurse Practitioner services | Prosthetics |
Freestanding Birth Center services (when licensed or otherwise recognized by the state) | Eyeglasses |
Transportation to medical care | Chiropractic services |
Tobacco cessation counseling for pregnant women | Other practitioner services |
Private duty nursing services | |
Personal Care | |
Hospice | |
Case management | |
Services for Individuals Age 65 or Older in an Institution for Mental Disease (IMD) | |
Services in an intermediate care facility for Individuals with Intellectual Disability | |
State Plan Home and Community Based Services- 1915(i) | |
Self-Directed Personal Assistance Services- 1915(j) | |
Community First Choice Option- 1915(k) | |
TB Related Services | |
Inpatient psychiatric services for individuals under age 21 | |
Other services approved by the Secretary* | |
Health Homes for Enrollees with Chronic Conditions – Section 1945 |
*This includes services furnished in a religious nonmedical health care institution, emergency hospital services by a non-Medicare certified hospital, and critical access hospital (CAH).