Rule 23-103-1.9 - Resource Limits Applicable to Institutional GroupsA. For Medicaid coverage groups considered to be institutional coverage groups, the following set of resource limits apply: 1. Effective 10-01-1989, Spousal Impoverishment resource rules apply to married couples whereby one spouse is in a medical facility while the other spouse remains at home.2. The Community Spouse is allowed a higher resource limit set by federal law and subject to increase each year.3. Effective 04-01-1993 until the coverage group ended 04-30-2005, Spousal Impoverish rules applied to Hospice Coverage group.4. Effective 01-01-1994, Spousal Impoverishment resource rules began to be applied to the HCBS Waiver programs.23 Miss. Code. R. 103-1.9
Social Security Act §1902 (r)(2); 42 CFR §435.601(b) (Rev 1994).