---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 C.F.R. § 436.1"
title: "42"
number: "436.1"
heading: "Purpose and applicability."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/42/436.1"
---

# §436.1. Purpose and applicability.


This part sets forth, for Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands—

- (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 a Medicaid agency must use in determining and redetermining eligibility, and requirements it may not use; and
- (d) The availability of FFP for providing Medicaid and for administering the eligibility provisions of the plan.

## Notes

### Amendments

[43 FR 45218, Sept. 29, 1978, as amended at 44 FR 17939, Mar. 23, 1979]

### Authority

Authority: Sec. 1102 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1302).

### Source

Source: 43 FR 45218, Sept. 29, 1978, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[43 FR 45218, Sept. 29, 1978, as amended at 44 FR 17939, Mar. 23, 1979]