Public Law No. 100-203, Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987, 22 December 1987
Annual Review of Population Law 14: 473-475
1987
ISSN/ISBN: 0364-3417 PMID: 12346743 Document Number: 381237
This document summarizes selected provisions of the US Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987. The Act amends previous legislation to allow Medicaid to cover the services of certified nurse-midwives and allow states to extend the eligibility standards for Medicaid coverage to pregnant women and infants under a year old whose families live within 185% of the Federal poverty level. The Act also allows states to extend Medicaid coverage to low-income children under 8 years old. The Act also requires states to cover home or community-based services extended to the care of the elderly who would otherwise be in Medicaid-funded institutions. Other provisions of the Act prohibit restrictions on freedom of choice of a family planning provider among individuals enrolled in certain insurance plans. Amendments to the 1980 Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act include extending indefinitely Federal financial participation in foster care for certain children; covering the costs of care for a foster child's son or daughter; authorizing grants for the care of infants who would otherwise remain inappropriately in hospitals; and calling for a survey of: 1) the number of infants and children with AIDS in foster care, 2) the problems encountered in placing such children in foster care, and 3) the potential increase in the number of affected children who will require foster care. Finally, the Act requires states to continue child support enforcement services to families that are removed from the welfare rolls.