All applicants or recipients who seek nursing care services in nursing facilities, swing-bed facilities, or intermediate care facilities for individuals with intellectual disabilities, or who seek home and community-based services, must demonstrate a medical necessity for the service sought on or prior to admission to a facility, upon application for medicaid while in a facility, or upon request for home and community-based services. That demonstration must be through the department's established screening process.
N.D. Admin Code 75-02-02.1-04
General Authority: NDCC 50-06-16, 50-24.1-04
Law Implemented: NDCC 50-24.1-01