---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 C.F.R. § 435.340"
title: "42"
number: "435.340"
heading: "Protected medically needy coverage for blind and disabled individuals eligible in December 1973."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/42/435.340"
---

# §435.340. Protected medically needy coverage for blind and disabled individuals eligible in December 1973.


If an agency provides Medicaid to the medically needy, it must cover individuals who—

- (a) Where eligible as medically needy under the Medicaid plan in December 1973 on the basis of the blindness or disability criteria of the AB, APTD, or AABD plan;
- (b) **For each consecutive month after December 1973, continue to meet—**
  - (1) Those blindness or disability criteria; and
  - (2) The eligibility requirements for the medically needy under the December 1973 Medicaid plan; and
- (c) Meet the current requirements for eligibility as medically needy under the Medicaid plan except for blindness or disability criteria.

## Notes

### Amendments

[46 FR 47987, Sept. 30, 1981]

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 1302.

### Source

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

### Amendments

[46 FR 47987, Sept. 30, 1981]