2007 Senate Bill 374 ↩

House Roll Call 417: Passed

To require the Department of Community Health to promulgate rules to create a Medicaid estate recovery program, in which the cost of services provided to Medicaid recipients (most often nursing home or long-term care services) may be recovered from the person’s estate after death. The rules must include provisions waiving recovery based on undue hardship, for the attachment and enforcement of liens, and for waiving recovery based on cost-effectiveness. Since Medicaid is for people with few assets, estate recovery programs allow the state to seek reimbursement from a person's estate. The federal government requires states to have Medicaid estate recovery programs.