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Outpatient hospital services
EPSDT: Early and Periodic Screening,
Diagnostic, and Treatment Services
Nursing Facility Services
Home health services
Physician services
Rural health clinic services
Federally qualified health center
services
Laboratory and X-ray services
Family planning services
Nurse Midwife services
Certified Pediatric and Family Nurse
Practitioner services
Freestanding Birth Center services
(when licensed or otherwise recognized
by the state)
Transportation to medical care
Tobacco cessation counseling for preg-
nant women
OPTIONAL BENEFITS
• Prescription Drugs
• Clinic services
• Physical therapy
• Occupational therapy
• Speech, hearing and language disorder
services
• Respiratory care services
• Other diagnostic, screening, preventive
and rehabilitative services
• Podiatry services
• Optometry services
• Dental Services
• Dentures
• Prosthetics
• Eyeglasses
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Chiropractic services
Other practitioner services
Private duty nursing services
Personal Care
Hospice
Case management
Services for Individuals Age 65 or
Older in an Institution for Mental
Disease (IMD)
• Services in an intermediate care facility
for Individuals with Intellectual
Disability
• State Plan Home and Community
Based Services- 1915(i)
• Self-Directed Personal Assistance
Services- 1915(j)
• Community First Choice Option-
1915(k)
• TB Related Services
• Inpatient psychiatric services for indi-
viduals under age 21
• Other services approved by the Secre-
tary*
• Health Homes for Enrollees with
Chronic Conditions – Section 1945
*This includes services furnished in a
religious nonmedical health care institution,
emergency hospital services by a non-Medi-
care certified hospital, and critical access
hospital (CAH).
***The above passages were taken from
the U.S. Department of Health & Human
Services website.
Robert Rhinesmith is a Registered Investment
Advisor, Applewood Capital Management Asso-
ciates, LLC.
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