---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 C.F.R. § 440.240"
title: "42"
number: "440.240"
heading: "Comparability of services for groups."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/42/440.240"
---

# §440.240. Comparability of services for groups.


Except as limited in [§ 440.250](/cfr/42/440.250.md)—

- (a) The plan must provide that the services available to any categorically needy beneficiary under the plan are not less in amount, duration, and scope than those services available to a medically needy beneficiary; and
- (b) The plan must provide that the services available to any individual in the following groups are equal in amount, duration, and scope for all beneficiaries within the group:
  - (1) **The categorically needy.**
  - (2) **A covered medically needy group.**

## Notes

### Amendments

[46 FR 47993, Sept. 30, 1981]

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 1302.

### Source

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

### Amendments

[46 FR 47993, Sept. 30, 1981]