---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 C.F.R. § 440.120"
title: "42"
number: "440.120"
heading: "Prescribed drugs, dentures, prosthetic devices, and eyeglasses."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/42/440.120"
---

# §440.120. Prescribed drugs, dentures, prosthetic devices, and eyeglasses.

- (a) “Prescribed drugs” means simple or compound substances or mixtures of substances prescribed for the cure, mitigation, or prevention of disease, or for health maintenance that are—
  - (1) Prescribed by a physician or other licensed practitioner of the healing arts within the scope of this professional practice as defined and limited by Federal and State law;
  - (2) Dispensed by licensed pharmacists and licensed authorized practitioners in accordance with the State Medical Practice Act; and
  - (3) Dispensed by the licensed pharmacist or practitioner on a written prescription that is recorded and maintained in the pharmacist's or practitioner's records.
- (b) “Dentures” are artificial structures made by or under the direction of a dentist to replace a full or partial set of teeth.
- (c) “Prosthetic devices” means replacement, corrective, or supportive devices prescribed by a physician or other licensed practitioner of the healing arts within the scope of his practice as defined by State law to—
  - (1) Artificially replace a missing portion of the body;
  - (2) Prevent or correct physical deformity or malfunction; or
  - (3) **Support a weak or deformed portion of the body.**
- (d) “Eyeglasses” means lenses, including frames, and other aids to vision prescribed by a physician skilled in diseases of the eye or an optometrist.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 1302.

### Source

Source: 43 FR 45224, Sept. 29, 1978, unless otherwise noted.