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PUBLIC LAW 8 6 - 7 7 8 - S E P T. 13, 1960

(e) Section 4 of such Act is amended by striking out "State plan for old-age assistance which has been approved" and inserting in lieu thereof "State plan which has been approved under this title". (f)(1) Section 6 of such Act is amended by striking out "but does not include" and all that follows and inserting in lieu thereof "but does not include— "(1) any such payments to or care in behalf of anj'^ individual who is an inmate of a public institution (except as a patient in a medical institution) or any individual who is a patient in an institution for tuberculosis or mental diseases, or "(2) any such payments to any individual who has been diagnosed as having tuberculosis or psychosis and is a patient in a medical institution as a result thereof, or "(3^ any such care in behalf of any individual, who is a patient m a medical institution as a result of a diagnosis that he has tuberculosis or psychosis, with respect to any period after the individual has been a patient in such an institution, as a result of such diagnosis, for forty-two days." (2) Section 6 is further amended by inserting " (a) " immediately after "SEC. 6." and by adding after such section 6 the following new subsections: " (b) For purposes of this title, the term 'medical assistance for the aged' means payment of part or all of the cost of the following care and services for individuals sixty-five years of age or older who are not recipients of old-age assistance but whose income and resources are insufficient to meet all of such cost— " (1) inpatient hospital services; " (2) skilled nursing-home services; "(3) physicians' services; " (4) outpatient hospital or clinic services; " (5) home health care services; " (6) private duty nursing services; " (7) physical therapy and related services; "(8) dental services; "(9) laboratory and X-ray services; "(10) prescribed drugs, eyeglasses, dentures, and prosthetic devices; " (11) diagnostic, screening, and preventive services; and "(12) any other medical care or remedial care recognized under State law; except that such term does not include any such payments with respect to— " (A) care or services for any individual who is an inmate of a public institution (except as a patient in a medical institution) or any individual who is a patient in an institution for tuberculosis or mental diseases; or " (B) care or services for any individual, who is a patient in a medical institution as a result of a diagnosis of tuberculosis or psychosis, with respect to any period after the individual has been a patient in such an institution, as a result of such diagnosis, for forty-two days. "(c) For purposes of this title, the term 'Federal medical percentage' for any State shall be 100 per centum less the State percentage; and the State percentage shall be that percentage which bears the same ratio to 50 per centum as the square of the per capita income of such State bears to the square of the per capita income of the continental United States (including Alaska) and Hawaii; except that (i) the Federal medical percentage shall in no case be less than 50 per centum or more than 80 per centum, and (ii) the Federal medical per-

991 42 USC 304.

42 USC 306.

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