Podiatry care under the Medicaid/NJ FamilyCare programs is allowable to covered persons if such services are essential. Essential podiatric care includes those services that require the professional knowledge and skill of a licensed podiatrist. For beneficiaries in the Medically Needy Program, podiatric care is only available to pregnant women, and the aged, the blind, or disabled. (For information on how to identify a covered person, please refer to N.J.A.C. 10:49-2.)
N.J. Admin. Code § 10:57-1.2
See: 31 N.J.R. 1304(a), 31 N.J.R. 2637(a).
Inserted a reference to NJ KidCare programs in the first sentence, and substituted a reference to beneficiaries for a reference to recipients in the third sentence.
Amended by R.2006 d.240, effective 7/3/2006.
See: 38 N.J.R. 1126(a), 38 N.J.R. 2805(a).
Substituted "FamilyCare" for "KidCare".