MEDICAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM - Section 0372 Special Treatment Cover Groups


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Part 3941 MEDICAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM - Section 0372 Special Treatment Cover Groups
Type of Filing Amendment
Regulation Status Inactive
Effective 03/02/2011 to 03/15/2012

Regulation Authority:

RIGL 40-8; Title XIX of the Social Security Act, Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Acy of 2008

Purpose and Reason:

Effective January 1, 2011, the resource limits for the Qualified Medicare Beneficiaries (QMB), Specified Low-Income Medicare Beneficiaries (SLMB), and Qualifying Individuals (QI) Programs have increased. The new resource limits are $6680 for an individual and $10,020 for a couple. These resource limits are adjusted on January 1st of each year, based upon the change in the annual consumer price index (CPI) since September of the previous year. The Department filed emergency rule-making to implement the change in resource limits on January 11, 2011.