Medicaid program; entitlement of children for whom payments are made under the foster care maintenance payments program or the adoption assistance program--HCFA. Final rule.

These final regulations implement the Medicaid provisions of the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980 (Pub. L. 96-272). That law established a new title IV-E of the Social Security Act, providing for adoption subsidies for certain hard-to-place children and for an expanded foster care program. Under the law, children for whom adoption assistance of foster care maintenance payments are made are entitled to Medicaid. These final regulations specify that the State making payments for a child under its title IV-E program is also responsible for Medicaid for that child.