WV State Medicaid Plan Information

S10 - MAGI Based Methodologies​

S88 - Residency Requirements

S89 - Non-Financial Eligibility Requirements

S94 - General Eligibility Process


1.0 Medicaid Administration 

  • 1.1 Designation and Authority
  • 1.2 Organization for Administration
  • 1.3 Assurances
  • 1.5 Pediatric Immunization Program 

2.0 Coverage and Eligibility 

  • 2.1 Application, Determination of Eligibility and Furnishing Medicaid
  • 2.2 Coverage and Conditions of Eligibility
  • 2.3 Residence
  • 2.4 Blindness
  • 2.5 Disability
  • 2.6 Financial Eligibilty
  • 2.7 Medicaid Furnished Out of State

3.0 Services: General Provisions

  • 3.1 Amount, Duration, and Scope of Services
  • 3.2 Coordination of Medicaid with Medicare and Other Insurance
  • 3.3 Medicaid for Individuals Age 65 or Over in Institutions for Mental Diseases
  • 3.4 Special Requirements Applicable to Sterilization Procedures
  • 3.5 Families Receiving Extended Medicaid Benefits
  • 3.7 Services to Families Receiving Extended Medicaid Benefits (Continued)

4.0 General Program Administration

  • ​4.1      Methods of Administration
  • 4.2      Hearings for Applicants and Recipients
  • ​4.3      Safeguarding Information on Applicants and Recipients
  • 4.4      Medicaid Quality Control
  • 4.5      Medicaid Agency Fraud Detection and Investigation Program
  • ​4.6      Reports
  • 4.7      Maintenance of Records
  • 4.8      Availability of Agency Program Manuals
  • 4.9      Reporting Provider Payments to Internal Revenue Service
  • ​4.10    Free Choice of Providers
  • ​4.11    Relations with Standard-Setting and Survey Agencies
  • 4​.12    Consultation to Medical Facilities
  • ​4.13    Required Provider Agreement
  • 4.14    Utilization/Quality Control
  • ​4.15    Inspection of Care in Intermediate Care Facilities for Mentally Retarded, Facilities Providing Inpatient Psychiatric Services for Individuals Under 21, and Mental Health Hospitals
  • 4.16    Relations with State Health and Vocational Rehabilitation Agencies and Title V Grantees
  • ​4.17    Liens and Adjustments and Recoveries
  • ​4.18    Recipient Cost Sharing and Similar Charges
  • ​4.19    Payment for Services
  • 4.20    Direct Payments to Certain Recipients for Physicians' or Dentists' Services
  • ​4.21    Prohibition Against Reassignment of Provider Claims
  • ​4.22    Third Party Liability
  • ​4.23    Use of Contracts
  • ​4.24   Standards for Payments for Nursing Facility and Intermediate Care Facility for the Mentally Retarded Services
  • ​4.25    Program for Licensing Administrators of Nursing Homes

​Updated 2/23

  • 4.26    Drug Utilization Review Program
  • ​4.27    Disclosure of Survey Information and Provider or Contractor Evaluation
  • ​4.28    Appeals Process
  • 4.29    Conflict of Interest Provisions
  • ​4.30    Exclusion of Providers and Suspension of Practitioners and Other Individuals
  • 4.31    Disclosure of Information by Providers and Fiscal Agents
  • 4.32    Income and Eligibility Verification System
  • ​4.33    Medicaid Eligibility Cards for Homeless Individuals
  • 4.34    Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements
  • ​4.35    Enforcement of Compliance for Nursing Facilities
  • 4.36    Required Coordination Between the Medicaid and WIC Programs
  • ​4.38    Nurse Aide Training and Competency Evaluation for Nursing Facilities
  • ​4.39    Preadmission Screening and Annual Resident Review in Nursing Facilities
  • ​4.41    Resident Assessment for Nursing Facilities
  • ​4.42    Employee Education About False Claims Recoveries

5.0 Personnel Administration

  • ​5.1    Standards of Personnel Administration
  • 5.2    (Reserved)
  • 5.3    Training Programs; Sub professional and Volunteer Programs

6.0 Financial Administration

  • 6​.1    Fiscal Policies and Accountability
  • 6.2    Cost Allocation
  • ​6.3    State Financial Participation

7.0 General Provisions

  • 7.1    Plan Amendments
  • 7.2    Nondiscrimination
  • 7.3    Maintenance of AFDC Effort
  • 7.4    State Governor's Review
  • 7.4    Medicaid Disaster Relief for COVID-19 National Emergency

Updated 10/2020 

Attachments and Supplements  

1.1 - A ​Attorney General's Certification 

​1.2 - A Organization of Administration


​2.1 - A ​Health Maintenance Organization

​2.2 - A Groups Covered and Agencies Responsible for Eligibility Determination

  • Pages 1-9b2 - Mandatory Coverage - Categorically Needy and Other Required Special Groups
  • Pages 9c-23d - Optional Groups Other than the Medically Needy
  • Pages 24-26a - Optional Coverage of the Medically Needy
  • Page 27 - Requirements Relating to Determining Eligibility for Medicare Prescription Drug Low-Income Subsidies
  • Supplement 1 - Reasonable Classification of Individuals Under the Ages of 21, 20, 19, and 18
  • Supplement 3 - Method for Determining Cost Effectiveness of Caring for Certain Disabled Children at Home

2.6 - A Eligibility Conditions and Requirements 

  • Pages 1-3c - General Conditions of Eligibility
  • Pages 4-5a - Post Eligibility Treatment of Institutionalized Individuals
  • Pages 6-26 - Financial Eligibility
  • Supplement 1 - Income Eligibility Levels
  • Supplement 1a - Income Eligibility Levels - Categorically Needy
  • Supplement 2 - Resource Levels
  • Supplement 3 - Reasonable Limits on Amounts for Necessary Medical or Remedial Care Not Covered Under Medicaid
  • Supplement 5 - More Restrictive Methods of Treating Resources with Income Related to the SSI Program
  • Supplement 5a - Methods of Treating Resources for Individuals with Incomes Related to Federal Poverty Levels
  • Supplement 6 - Standards for Optional State Supplementary Payments
  • Supplement 7 -  Income Levels for 1902 (f) States - Categorically Needy Who re Covered Under Requirements More Restrictive than SSI
  • Supplement 8 - Resource Standards for 1902 (f) States - Categorically Needy
  • Supplement 8a - More Liberal Methods of Treating Income Under Section 1902 (r)(2) of the Act
  • Supplement 8b - More Liberal Methods of Treating Resources Under Section 1902 (r)(2) of the Act
  • Supplement 8c - State Long-Term Care Insurance Partnership
  • Supplement 9 -  Transfer of Resources
  • Supplement 9a - Transfer of Assets
  • Supplement 9b - Transfer of Assets for Less Than Fair Market Value Made on or After February 8, 2006
  • Supplement 10 - Consideration of Medicaid Qualifying Trusts - Undue Hardship
  • Supplement 11 - Cost Effectiveness Methodology for Cobra Continuation Beneficiaries
  • Supplement 12 - Eligibility Under Section 1931 of the Act
  • Supplement 13 - Spousal Impoverishment - Undue Hardship
  • Supplement 16 - Asset Verification System
  • Supplement 17 - Home Equity
  • Supplement 18 -Methodology for Identification of Applicable FMAP Rate

​3.1 Attachment 2 - WV Medicaid Redesign Benefit Package


Updated 3/2022

3.1 - A  Amount, Duration and Scope of M​edical and Remedial Care and Services Provided to the Categorically Needy  

  • Supplement 1 - Case Management Services
  • Attachment for A, D, and E of Supplement 1 to Attachment 3.1-A
  • Addendum - School-Based Health Services (Special Education)

Updated 3/2022 

3.1 - B  Amount, Duration and Scope of Services Pr​ovided for Medically Needy Group(s): All Covered Medically Needy Groups 


Updated 1/2025 

3.1 - A & 3.1 - B 

  • Amount, Dur​ation, Scope of Med​ical and Remedial Care And Services Provided to the Medically Needy - Methods of Providing Transportation
  • Supplement 2 to Attachm​ents 3.1-A and 3.1-B, Amount, Duration and Scope of Assistance
  • Supplement 2 to Attachments 3.1-A and 3.1-B, Chiropractic Services
  • Supplement 3 to Attachments 3.1-​A and 3.1-B, Medicated Assisted Treatment

Updated 7/2023

3.1 - C 

  • Alternative Benefits Benchmark Equivalent Quality Package​
  • Supplement 1 to Attachent 3.1 - C Medicaid Redesign Eligibility Groups: Children's Covered Group
  • Supplement 2 to Attachment 3.1 - C West Virginia Medicaid Redesign Children's Benefit Packages
  • Supplement 3 to Attachment 3.1 - C West Virginia Medicaid Member Agreement
  • Supplement 4 to Attachment 3.1 - C Wraparound Services: Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic and Treatment (EPSDT) Services

Updated 3/2022

3.1 - D Methods of Providing Tra​nsportation

​3.1 - E Standards for the Coverage of Organ Transplant Procedures

3.1 - H ​Health Homes


​Updated 9/2017

Statewide Health Home for Bipolar disorder at risk for Hepatitis B & C


Updated 9/2017

​Pilot Health Home for Pre-diabetes, diabetes, obesity and at risk for anxiety and/or depression

​3.1 - L Alternative Benefit Plan

​3.2 - A Coordination of Title XIX with Part A and Part B of Title XVIII


Updated​ 1/2025

4.5    ​        Recovery Audit ​Contractor

​4.11 - A    ​Standards for Institutions

​​4.16 - A    ​Interrelationships with State Health and State Vocational Rehabilitation Agencies and with Title V Grantees

4.17 - A    ​Liens and Adjustments or Recoveries

4.18 - A    ​Charges Imposed on Categorically Needy for Services Other Than Those Provided Under Section 1905 (a) (1)

​4.18 - C    ​Charges Imposes on the Medically Need for Services Other Than Those Provided Under Section 1905 (a) (1) through (5) and (7) Act

4.19 - A    ​Inpatient ​Hos​pital Services

  • Supplem​ent 1 - Transition Percentage for Operating Payments
  • Supplement 2 - Transition Percentage for Capitol Payment Amounts

Updated 9/2017

​4.19 - A -1    ​Payments for Medical and Remedial Care and Services-Inpatient Hospitals Services - Disproportionate Share Hospitals

4.19 - A -2    ​Payment for Medical and Remedial Care and Services-Inpatient Psychiatric Facility Services for Individual Under 22 Years of Age


Updated 9​/2023

4.19 - B    ​Payments for Medi​cal​ and Remedial Care and Services

  • Supplement 1 - Methods and Standards for Establishing Payment Rates-Other Types of Care
  • Supplement 2 - Payment Adjustment for Other Provider Preventable Conditions​

4.19 - D    ​Methods and Standards for Determining Payment Rates for State-Owned Long Term Care Facilities (SNF, ICF, and ICF/MR Facilities)

​4.19 - D-1 ​Methods and Standards for Determining Payment Rates for Non-State-Owned Nursing Facilities Excludes State-Owned Facilities ​

4.19 - D-2 ​Methods and Standards for Determining Payment Rates for  Intermediate Care Facilities for Mentally Retarded

4.19 - E    ​Timely-Claims Payment

​4.22 - A    ​Requirements for Third Party Liability - Identifying Liable Resources

​4.22 - B    ​Requirements for Third Party Liability - Payment of Claims

​4.22 - C    ​State Method on Cost Effectiveness of Employer-Base Group Health Plans

​4.30    ​      Sanctions for MCOs and PCCMs

4.32 - A    ​Income and Eligibility Verification System Procedures: Requests to Other State Agencies

​4.33 - A    ​Method for Issuance of Medicaid Eligibility Cards to Homeless Individuals

​4.34 - A    ​Requirements for Advance Directives Under State Plans for Medical Assistance

4.35 - A    ​Eligibility Conditions and Requirements-Enforcement of Compliance for Nursing Facilities

4.35 - B    ​Eligibility Conditions and Requirements-Termination of Provider Agreement

4.35 - C    ​Eligibility Conditions and Requirements-Temporary Management

​4.35 - D    ​Eligibility Conditions and Requirements-Denial of Payment for New Admission

​4.35 - E    ​Eligibility Conditions and Requirements-Civil Money Penalty

​4.35 - F    ​Eligibility Conditions and Requirements-State Monitoring

​4.35 - G    ​Eligibility Conditions and Requirements-Transfer for Residents with Closure of Facility

​4.35 - H    ​Eligibility Conditions and Requirements-Additional Remedies

4.38    ​      Disclosure of Additional Registry Information

​4.38 - A    ​Collection of Additional Registry Information

​4.39          ​Definition of Specialized Services

​4.39 - A    ​Categorical Determinations

​4.42 - A    ​False Claims Act Attachment

4.43 - A    ​Medicaid Integrity Program Efforts

​4.44    ​Prohibition on Payments to Entities Outside the US

4.46    ​Provider Screening and Enrollment 


​5.1 - A Standards of Personnel Administration


7.2 - A Nondiscrimination

7.4 - A Recissions ​to the State's Disaster Relief for COVID-19 National Emergency Attachment 

7.7 - A Vaccine and Vaccine Administration

7.7 - B COVID-19 Testing 

7.7 - C ​COVID-19 Treatment

S14    ​  AFDC Income Standards

S21    ​  Presumptive Eligibility by Hospitals


Updated 7/20​23

Eligibility Groups - Mandatory

​S25    ​Parents and Other Caretaker Relatives

S28    ​Pregnant Women

​S30    ​Infants and Children Under Age 19

​S32    ​Adult Group

​S33    ​Former Foster ​Care Children

Eligibility Groups - Optional Coverage

S50    ​Individuals above 133% of FPL

​S51    ​Optional Coverage of Parents and Other Caretaker Relatives

​​​S52    ​Options for Coverage Reasonable Classification of Individuals under 21​

​S53    ​Children With Non-IV-E Adoption Assistance

​S54    ​Optional Targeted Low Income Children

​S55    ​Individuals With Tuberculosis

​S57    ​Independent Foster Care Adolescents

​S59    ​Individuals Eligible for Family Planning Services

​Cost Sharing

​G1 to G3    ​Medicaid Cost Sharing