Through the Medicaid Estate Recovery program, federal regulations allow states to attempt to recover some long-term care, hospital, and medication costs from an individual’s estate after their death.

Medicaid is a government program that can help eligible seniors pay for nursing home care. If you’re helping an aging parent navigate Medicaid because they don’t have long-term care insurance or you ...

Some individuals think that if they or their loved ones are approved to receive Medicaid benefits that any of the assets that they have are theirs to do “whatever they want” when they pass away. In ...

On March 6, 2024, U.S. Rep. Janice Schakowksy of Illinois and chief deputy whip and ranking member of the House Innovation, Data and Commerce Subcommittee, introduced a bill to totally eliminate ...

Apr. 15—The amount of money Ohio collects from the estates of deceased Medicaid recipients continued to climb last year as some federal lawmakers advocate ending the practice. The state collected more ...

A relative died in Maryland in 2019 while receiving Medicaid benefits in a nursing home. He had no other assets in his estate other than vacant real property in New York. Maryland filed a lien against ...

WASHINGTON — As Salvatore LoGrande fought cancer and all the pain that came with it, his daughters promised to keep him in the white, pitched roof house he worked so hard to buy all those decades ago.

For many American families, an owned home represents their largest asset and a cornerstone of generational wealth-not to mention a source of great emotional resonance. Unfortunately, as many people ...

For decades, MassHealth, the state’s Medicaid program, was recovering more assets from clients’ estates than any other state in the country. Now, that’s no longer the case. Included in recent ...

Collection agents for the state of Iowa have sent letters seeking millions of dollars from the estates of at least two people with disabilities who died after spending most of their lives in a state ...