[§346-70] Medical assistance for other pregnant women. (a) The department may provide state-funded medical assistance to a pregnant woman age nineteen years of age or older whose countable family income does not exceed one hundred and eighty-five per cent of the federal poverty level for a family of applicable size, including the expected unborn children. The pregnant woman shall be:
(b) Once determined eligible for medical assistance under this section, the pregnant woman shall continue to be eligible throughout her pregnancy and through the last day of the calendar month in which the sixty-day period following childbirth ends.
(c) Assets shall not be evaluated for eligibility purposes.
(d) The director shall adopt rules pursuant to chapter 91 to determine eligibility for medical assistance. [L 2004, c 160, §2]