New Hampshire Code of Administrative Rules
He - Department of Health and Human Services
Subtitle He-W - Former Division of Human Services
Chapter He-W 500 - MEDICAL ASSISTANCE
Part He-W 546 - EARLY AND PERIODIC SCREENING, DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT SERVICES
Section He-W 546.01 - Definitions

(a) "Department" means the New Hampshire department of health and human services.

(b) "Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment (EPSDT) services" means a program, pursuant to 42 CFR 440.40, designed to provide preventative health care, diagnostic services, and early detection and treatment of disease or abnormalities to medicaid eligible individuals under age 21.

(c) "Medicaid" means the Title XIX and Title XXI programs administered by the department which makes medical assistance available to eligible individuals.

(d) "Medical" means related to the following:

(e) "Medically necessary" means reasonably calculated to prevent, diagnose, correct, cure, alleviate or prevent the worsening of conditions that endanger life, cause pain, result in illness or infirmity, threaten to cause or aggravate a handicap, or cause physical deformity or malfunction, and no other equally effective course of treatment is available or suitable for the EPSDT recipient requesting a medically necessary service.

(f) "Periodicity schedule" means a regularly recurring schedule of preventive health care, dental care, or screening services as determined by standards of practice.

(g) "Primary care physician" means the physician who routinely provides health care to the recipient.

(h) "Recipient" means any individual who is eligible for and receiving medical assistance under the medicaid program.

(i) "Title XIX program" means the joint federal-state program described in Title XIX of The Social Security Act and administered in New Hampshire by the department under the medicaid program.

(j) "Title XXI" means the joint federal-state program described in Title XXI of the Social Security Act and administered in New Hampshire by the department under the medicaid program.

(k) "Treating physician" means the physician who is managing a present illness or condition, in conjunction with or aside from the recipient's primary care physician.