---
kind: "unit"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
key: "ch7/schXIX"
level: "subchapter"
label: "Subchapter XIX"
heading: "Grants to States for Medical Assistance Programs"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/ch7-schXIX"
sections_count: 59
---

# Subchapter XIX — Grants to States for Medical Assistance Programs

Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 7 — Social Security

## Sections

- [§1396. Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission](/usc/42/1396.md)
- [§1396–1. Appropriations](/usc/42/1396-1.md)
- [§1396a. State plans for medical assistance](/usc/42/1396a.md)
- [§1396b. Payment to States](/usc/42/1396b.md)
- [§1396b–1. Payment adjustment for health care-acquired conditions](/usc/42/1396b-1.md)
- [§1396c. Operation of State plans](/usc/42/1396c.md)
- [§1396d. Definitions](/usc/42/1396d.md)
- [§1396e. Enrollment of individuals under group health plans](/usc/42/1396e.md)
- [§1396e–1. Premium assistance](/usc/42/1396e-1.md)
- [§1396f. Observance of religious beliefs](/usc/42/1396f.md)
- [§1396g. State programs for licensing of administrators of nursing homes](/usc/42/1396g.md)
- [§1396g–1. Required laws relating to medical child support](/usc/42/1396g-1.md)
- [§1396h. State false claims act requirements for increased State share of recoveries](/usc/42/1396h.md)
- [§1396i. Certification and approval of rural health clinics and intermediate care facilities for mentally retarded](/usc/42/1396i.md)
- [§1396j. Indian Health Service facilities](/usc/42/1396j.md)
- [§1396k. Assignment, enforcement, and collection of rights of payments for medical care; establishment of procedures pursuant to State plan; amounts retained by State](/usc/42/1396k.md)
- [§1396l. Hospital providers of nursing facility services](/usc/42/1396l.md)
- [§1396m. Withholding of Federal share of payments for certain medicare providers](/usc/42/1396m.md)
- [§1396n. Compliance with State plan and payment provisions](/usc/42/1396n.md)
- [§1396o. Use of enrollment fees, premiums, deductions, cost sharing, and similar charges](/usc/42/1396o.md)
- [§1396o–1. State option for alternative premiums and cost sharing](/usc/42/1396o-1.md)
- [§1396p. Liens, adjustments and recoveries, and transfers of assets](/usc/42/1396p.md)
- [§1396q. Application of provisions of subchapter II relating to subpoenas](/usc/42/1396q.md)
- [§1396r. Requirements for nursing facilities](/usc/42/1396r.md)
- [§1396r–1. Presumptive eligibility for pregnant women](/usc/42/1396r-1.md)
- [§1396r–1a. Presumptive eligibility for children](/usc/42/1396r-1a.md)
- [§1396r–1b. Presumptive eligibility for certain breast or cervical cancer patients](/usc/42/1396r-1b.md)
- [§1396r–1c. Presumptive eligibility for family planning services](/usc/42/1396r-1c.md)
- [§1396r–2. Information concerning sanctions taken by State licensing authorities against health care practitioners and providers](/usc/42/1396r-2.md)
- [§1396r–3. Correction and reduction plans for intermediate care facilities for mentally retarded](/usc/42/1396r-3.md)
- [§1396r–4. Adjustment in payment for inpatient hospital services furnished by disproportionate share hospitals](/usc/42/1396r-4.md)
- [§1396r–5. Treatment of income and resources for certain institutionalized spouses](/usc/42/1396r-5.md)
- [§1396r–6. Extension of eligibility for medical assistance](/usc/42/1396r-6.md)
- [§1396r–7. Repealed.](/usc/42/1396r-7.md)
- [§1396r–8. Payment for covered outpatient drugs](/usc/42/1396r-8.md)
- [§1396s. Program for distribution of pediatric vaccines](/usc/42/1396s.md)
- [§1396t. Home and community care for functionally disabled elderly individuals](/usc/42/1396t.md)
- [§1396u. Community supported living arrangements services](/usc/42/1396u.md)
- [§1396u–1. Assuring coverage for certain low-income families](/usc/42/1396u-1.md)
- [§1396u–2. Provisions relating to managed care](/usc/42/1396u-2.md)
- [§1396u–3. State coverage of medicare cost-sharing for additional low-income medicare beneficiaries](/usc/42/1396u-3.md)
- [§1396u–4. Program of all-inclusive care for elderly (PACE)](/usc/42/1396u-4.md)
- [§1396u–5. Special provisions relating to medicare prescription drug benefit](/usc/42/1396u-5.md)
- [§1396u–6. Medicaid Integrity Program](/usc/42/1396u-6.md)
- [§1396u–7. State flexibility in benefit packages](/usc/42/1396u-7.md)
- [§1396u–8. Health opportunity accounts](/usc/42/1396u-8.md)
- [§1396v. References to laws directly affecting medicaid program](/usc/42/1396v.md)
- [§1396w. Asset verification through access to information held by financial institutions](/usc/42/1396w.md)
- [§1396w–1. Medicaid Improvement Fund](/usc/42/1396w-1.md)
- [§1396w–2. Authorization to receive relevant information](/usc/42/1396w-2.md)
- [§1396w–3. Enrollment simplification and coordination with State health insurance exchanges](/usc/42/1396w-3.md)
- [§1396w–3a. Requirements relating to qualified prescription drug monitoring programs and prescribing certain controlled substances](/usc/42/1396w-3a.md)
- [§1396w–4. State option to provide coordinated care through a health home for individuals with chronic conditions](/usc/42/1396w-4.md)
- [§1396w–4a. State option to provide coordinated care through a health home for children with medically complex conditions](/usc/42/1396w-4a.md)
- [§1396w–5. Addressing health care disparities](/usc/42/1396w-5.md)
- [§1396w–6. State option to provide qualifying community-based mobile crisis intervention services](/usc/42/1396w-6.md)
- [§1396w–7. Supporting access to a continuum of crisis response services under Medicaid and CHIP](/usc/42/1396w-7.md)
- [§1396w–8. Collection and reporting of comprehensive data for specified populations](/usc/42/1396w-8.md)
- [§1396w–9. State studies and HHS report on costs of providing maternity, labor, and delivery services](/usc/42/1396w-9.md)
