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Alabama recovers all approved Medicaid medical assistance — not only long-term care — from the estates of recipients who were 55 or older when they received it, and from recipients who were permanently institutionalized at any age.
Alabama
medicaid.alabama.gov/content/7.0_Providers/7.1_Third_Party/7.1.1_Estate_Recovery.aspx→Administering agency
Alabama Medicaid Agency — Estate Recovery
Authority
Ala. Admin. Code r. 560-X-33-.05; Code of Ala. 1975, §§ 22-1-11, 22-6-8
No. Alabama recovers all approved Medicaid medical assistance except Medicare cost-sharing from the estates of recipients who were 55 or older when they received it, and from recipients who were permanently institutionalized at any age.
Recovery is deferred while a surviving spouse is living, and while there is a surviving child under 21 or a blind or permanently and totally disabled child of any age.
The Alabama Medicaid Agency may waive recovery for an income-limited family farm or business that is the sole income-producing asset of the heirs. The waiver is not available where long-term care insurance applied or assets were illegally divested to avoid recovery.
When someone dies
4-step process for Alabama Medicaid Agency — Estate Recovery.
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medicaid.alabama.gov/content/7.0_Providers/7.1_Third_Party/7.1.1_Estate_Recovery.aspx→Administering agency
Alabama Medicaid Agency — Estate Recovery
Authority
Ala. Admin. Code r. 560-X-33-.05; Code of Ala. 1975, §§ 22-1-11, 22-6-8