Optional services

Services which may be provided or covered by a health program or provider and, if provided, will be paid for in addition to any required services which must be offered. In addition to the required services under Medicaid, if States elect to include any of the optional services in their programs, matching funds under title XIX are available. The optional services States may offer are the following: prescribed drugs (covered by 50 out of 53 States and jurisdictions); clinic services (offered by 41); dental services (41); eyeglasses (38); private duty nursing (21); skilled nursing facility services for individuals under 21 (42); care for patients under 21 in psychiatric hospitals (25); intermediate care facility services (49) ; prosthetic devices (43) ; physical therapy and related services (35); other diagnostic, screening, preventive and rehabilitation services (25); optometrists’ services (37); podiatrists’ services (39) ; chiropractors’ services (27) ; care for persons 65 or older in institutions for mental diseases (41); and care for patients 65 or older in tuberculosis institutions (31). States may also offer any ”medical care, or any other type of remedial care recognized under State law, furnished by licensed practitioners within the scope of their practice as defined by State law” that is not specifically excluded from coverage b}^ title XIX (the exclusions are: care or services for inmates of public nonmedical institutions; inpatient services in a mental institution for individuals over 20 and under 65; and services for persons under 65 in a tuberculosis institution).


 


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