# Medicaid Program; Covered Outpatient Drug; Further Delay of Inclusion of Territories in Definitions of States and United States
> **Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services** · Interim final rule with comment period. · Published 2019-11-25 · Effective 2020-01-24 · 84 FR 64783
## Document
- **Document number:** 2019-25514
- **Category:** medicaid
- **Sub-agency:** Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- **Federal Register citation:** 84 FR 64783
- **CFR reference:** 42 CFR 447
- **Publication date:** 2019-11-25
- **Effective date:** 2020-01-24
- **HHS docket:** CMS-2345-IFC3
## Abstract

The Covered Outpatient Drug final rule with comment period was published in the February 1, 2016 Federal Register. As part of that final rule with comment period, we amended the regulatory definitions of "States" and "United States" to include the U.S. territories (American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands of the United States) beginning April 1, 2017. Subsequently, in the November 15, 2016 Federal Register, we published an interim final rule with comment period (IFC) to further delay the inclusion of the U.S. territories in the regulatory definitions of "States" and "United States" until beginning April 1, 2020. This IFC further delays the inclusion of the territories in the definitions of "States" and "United States" until beginning April 1, 2022.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/11/25/2019-25514/medicaid-program-covered-outpatient-drug-further-delay-of-inclusion-of-territories-in-definitions-of)
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