---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 C.F.R. § 435.2"
title: "42"
number: "435.2"
heading: "Purpose and applicability."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/42/435.2"
---

# §435.2. Purpose and applicability.


This part sets forth, for the 50 States, the District of Columbia, the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa—

- (a) The eligibility provisions that a State plan must contain;
- (b) The mandatory and optional groups of individuals to whom Medicaid is provided under a State plan;
- (c) The eligibility requirements and procedures that the Medicaid agency must use in determining and redetermining eligibility, and requirements it may not use;
- (d) The availability of FFP for providing Medicaid and for administering the eligibility provisions of the plan; and
- (e) Other requirements concerning eligibility determinations, such as use of an institutionalized individual's income for the cost of care.

## Notes

### Amendments

[43 FR 45204, Sept. 29, 1978, as amended at 44 FR 17937, Mar. 23, 1979; 51 FR 41350, Nov. 14, 1986]

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 1302.

### Source

Source: 43 FR 45204, Sept. 29, 1978, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[43 FR 45204, Sept. 29, 1978, as amended at 44 FR 17937, Mar. 23, 1979; 51 FR 41350, Nov. 14, 1986]