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This rule amends the Medicaid regulations to incorporate or revise the following mandatory and optional eligibility groups of individuals for Medicaid coverage: (1) Pregnant women; (2) qualified children under a specified age; (3) children in adoptions and foster care; (4) certain disabled widows and widowers; and (5) certain disabled children being cared for at home. The rule also adds a condition of eligibility relating to third party liability for medical assistance expenditures. The amendments conform the regulations to certain statutory provisions of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987, the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985, and the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982.