Medicaid Estate Recovery in Alaska

Medicaid Estate Recovery in Alaska: key facts

Recovery scope

Limited to long-term care: services received as an inpatient in a nursing facility, intermediate care facility, or other medical institution, and home- and community-based waiver services. Not all Medicaid medical assistance.

Who is subject

The estate of a recipient who was age 55 or older when the long-term care services were received.

Recovery deferred

A claim may be made only after the death of the recipient's surviving spouse, if any, and only when there is no surviving child under age 21 and no surviving child who is blind or totally and permanently disabled.

Hardship waiver

The Department of Health may grant an undue-hardship waiver — for example, where the estate is the sole income-producing asset of heirs or where recovery would force an heir onto public assistance.

Frequently asked questions