A broader Medicaid program: North Dakota is the first state to implement the federal Family Opportunity Act.(ADVOCACY)

Behavioral Healthcare | June 1, 2007| | Copyright

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 ...

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