South Dakota Administrative Rules
Title 67 - Department of Social Services
Article 67:46 - Eligibility for medical services
Chapter 67:46:01 - General provisions
Section 67:46:01:02 - Eligibility requirements

(1) A parent/caretaker relative eligible for Medicaid under the provisions of chapter 67:46:12;

(2) A person who is a recipient of a money payment under the supplemental security income program;

(3) A person under age twenty-one who would be a recipient of a money payment under the supplemental security income program if not subject to paragraphs (A) and (B) of 42 U.S.C. 1382(c)(7);

(4) A person who is in a hospital or intermediate care facility and would be eligible for a money payment under the supplemental security income program upon leaving the facility;

(5) A person under the age of twenty-one who is in the custody of the department and who meets the income requirements of § 67:46:12:15;

(6) A person under the age of twenty-one who meets the income requirements of § 67:46:12:15, is in foster care, and whose financial responsibility has been assumed in full or in part by the department;

(7) A person who is eligible under the provisions of chapters 67:46:02 to 67:46:06, inclusive;

(8) A person who is eligible for transitional medical benefits under the provisions of chapter 67:46:13;

(9) A child in a subsidized adoption;

(10) A person who is currently receiving social security, who was entitled to and received social security and supplemental security income concurrently after April 1977, who was terminated from supplemental security income, and who currently would be eligible for supplemental security income if the social security cost of living allowances back to the time of supplemental security income ineligibility are disregarded;

(11) A pregnant woman who meets the income requirements under the provisions of chapter 67:46:12;

(12) A woman who applied for Medicaid while pregnant and who was eligible for and received Medicaid on the date the pregnancy ended. Eligibility continues to the end of the month sixty days after the pregnancy ends;

(13) A child under age nineteen whose family income meets the income requirements under the provisions of chapter 67:46:12;

(14) A child under age nineteen who is eligible for the nonmedicaid children's health insurance program covered under the provisions of chapter 67:46:14;

(15) A person determined to be a qualified Medicare beneficiary under the provisions of chapter 67:46:11, with benefits limited to the part A and B premium, deductible, co-payments, and coinsurance charges;

(16) A person determined to be a Special Low-Income Medicare beneficiary under the provisions of chapter 67:46:11 whose income is at least one hundred percent, but less than one hundred twenty percent of the federal poverty level. Benefits are limited to payment of part B Medicare premiums;

(17) A person determined to be a qualified Medicare beneficiary under the provisions of chapter 67:46:11 whose income is at least one hundred twenty percent, but less than one hundred thirty-five percent of the federal poverty level, and who is not otherwise eligible for Medicaid. Benefits are limited to payment of part B Medicare premiums. The department may discontinue services provided under the provisions of this chapter if the department exhausts its financial resources for providing the services;

(18) A person who is eligible for and is receiving services under the home and community-based services waiver program in chapter 67:44:03 or the home and community-based services program in chapter 67:54:04, 67:54:06 or 67:54:09;

(19) A disabled widow or a disabled widower who is at least age fifty but less than age sixty-five, who was terminated from supplemental security income due to receipt of social security benefits under Title II of the Social Security Act, as amended to January 1, 2016, who is not on Medicare part A, and who would continue to be eligible for supplemental security income if the Title II benefits are disregarded;

(20) A disabled adult who became disabled or blind before age twenty-two and was terminated from supplemental security income due to entitlement to social security benefits as an adult disabled child, but who would continue to be eligible for supplemental security income if the social security benefits are disregarded;

(21) A child born to a woman eligible for and receiving Medicaid on the date of the child's birth. Eligibility continues for up to one year as long as the child remains a resident of the state;

(22) A child under age twenty-one who is under the jurisdiction of the South Dakota Department of Corrections, is not an inmate of a public institution, does not reside with a parent, and meets the income requirements as established under the provisions of chapter 67:46:12;

(23) A child under age twenty-six who, on the child's eighteenth birthday, was in foster care under the responsibility of the state;

(24) A woman over age twenty-nine and under age sixty-five who was screened for breast and cervical cancer by the Department of Health's All Women Count Program and who is in need of treatment for breast or cervical cancer or a precancerous condition of the breast or cervix, is not covered under creditable coverage, and is not otherwise eligible for medical services;

(25) Coverage from conception to birth when the mother is not eligible for Medicaid under the requirements of 67:46:01:16 and meets the income limits established in 67:46:12:11;

(26) A working individual with a disability who has a net income below two hundred fifty percent of the federal poverty level and who, except for earned income, meets all criteria for receiving benefits under the supplemental security income program; and

(27) A person age nineteen or older and under age sixty-five who meets the income requirements in chapter 67:46:12.

For purposes of this rule, a qualified alien who arrived in the United States after August 21, 1996, and who meets the eligibility requirements contained in this section must also meet the requirements of § 67:46:01:10.