42 CFR § 435.915 - Effective date.
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identifier: "/us/cfr/t42/s435.915"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "42 CFR § 435.915 - Effective date."
title_number: 42
title_name: "Public Health"
section_number: "435.915"
section_name: "Effective date."
chapter_name: "CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES"
subchapter_number: "C"
subchapter_name: "MEDICAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS"
part_number: "435"
part_name: "ELIGIBILITY IN THE STATES, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, THE NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS, AND AMERICAN SAMOA"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-03-24"
last_updated: "2026-03-24"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "42 U.S.C. 1302."
regulatory_source: "43 FR 45204, Sept. 29, 1978, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "435"
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# 435.915 Effective date.
(a) The agency must make eligibility for Medicaid effective no later than the third month before the month of application if the individual—
(1) Received Medicaid services, at any time during that period, of a type covered under the plan; and
(2) Would have been eligible for Medicaid at the time he received the services if he had applied (or someone had applied for him), regardless of whether the individual is alive when application for Medicaid is made.
(b) The agency may make eligiblity for Medicaid effective on the first day of a month if an individual was eligible at any time during that month.
(c) The State plan must specify the date on which eligibility will be made effective.
[44 FR 17937, Mar. 23, 1979. Redesignated at 77 FR 17209, Mar. 23, 2012]