The Secretary of Health, with the advice of the Secretary of the Family, shall establish similar standards of application for every person or family to determine and promulgate the grade of annual income and other economic resources under which a person or family will be certified as eligible to request and receive medical-hospital assistance within and without the health institutions of the Commonwealth and its municipalities, chargeable to public funds. This eligibility certificate shall be transacted through swift and simple administrative procedures, which might best protect the interest of the requesting person or family. An annual review shall be made of the resources under which every person or family obtains the certificate. History —June 21, 1969, No. 56, p. 100, § 2, eff. July 1, 1969.
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