---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 C.F.R. § 441.22"
title: "42"
number: "441.22"
heading: "Nurse practitioner services."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/42/441.22"
---

# §441.22. Nurse practitioner services.


With respect to nurse practitioner services that meet the definition of [§ 440.166(a)](/cfr/42/440.166.md?p=a) and the requirements of either [§ 440.166(b)](/cfr/42/440.166.md?p=b) or [§ 440.166(c)](/cfr/42/440.166.md?p=c), the State plan must meet the following requirements:

- (a) **Provide that nurse practitioner services are furnished to the categorically needy.**
- (b) **Specify whether those services are furnished to the medically needy.**
- (c) Provide that services furnished by a nurse practitioner, regardless of whether the nurse practitioner is under the supervision of, or associated with, a physician or other health care provider, may—
  - (1) Be reimbursed by the State Medicaid agency through an independent provider agreement between the State and the nurse practitioner; or
  - (2) **Be paid through the employing provider.**

## Notes

### Amendments

[60 FR 19862, Apr. 21, 1995]

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 1302.

### Source

Source: 43 FR 45229, Sept. 29, 1978, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[60 FR 19862, Apr. 21, 1995]