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Article: A broader Medicaid program: North Dakota is the first state to implement the federal Family Opportunity Act.(ADVOCACY)
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- Behavioral Healthcare
- Article date:
- June 1, 2007
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In April, North Dakota became the first state to implement the federal Family Opportunity Act (FOA), which allows families of children with special healthcare needs/disabilities to purchase supplemental Medicaid coverage. Children with special healthcare needs are defined as having or at increased risk for a chronic physical, developmental, behavioral, or emotional condition and who also require health and related services of a type or amount beyond that required by children generally.
Under North Dakota SB 2326, families at 200% of the federal poverty level will pay 5% of their monthly income as a premium for the additional coverage. The state will use a ...