MEDICALLY NEEDY INCOME LEVELS FOR CERTAIN I-MEMBER FAMILIES.

SEC. 4718. MEDICALLY NEEDY INCOME LEVELS FOR CERTAIN I-MEMBER FAMILIES. (a) In General.—For purposes of section 1903(1)(1)(6), for payments made before, on, or after the date of the enactment of this Act, a State described in subparagraph (B) may use, in determining the “highest amount which would ordinarily be paid to a family of the same size” (under the State’s plan approved under part A of title IV of such Act) in the case of a family consisting only of one individual and without regard to whether or not such plan provides for aid to families consisting only of one individual, an amount reasonably related to the highest money payment which would ordinarily be made under such a plan to a family of two without income or resources. (b) States Covered.—Subsection (a) shall only apply to a State the State plan of which (under title XIX of the Social Security Act) as of June 1, 1989, provided for the policy described in such paragraph. For purposes of the previous sentence, a State plan includes all the matter included in a State plan under section 2373(c)(5) of the Deficit Reduction Act of 1984 (as amended by section 9 of the Medicare and Medicaid Patient and Program Protection Act of 1987).