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Georgia recovers the cost of long-term care from the estates of deceased Medicaid members who were 55 or older when they received it, and from members of any age in a nursing or intermediate care facility. The program covers services received on or after May 3, 2006, and exempts the first $25,000 of the estate for deaths on or after July 1, 2018.
Georgia
medicaid.georgia.gov/programs/third-party-liability/medicaid-estate-recovery→Administering agency
Georgia Department of Community Health — State Medicaid Estate Recovery Program
Authority
Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 111-3-8 (Estate Recovery); O.C.G.A. 49-4-147.1
Georgia recovers the cost of long-term care — nursing facility services, personal care, home and community-based services, hospital services, and prescription drug services — from the estates of members who were 55 or older when they received it, and from members of any age in a nursing or intermediate care facility.
Recovery is deferred while a surviving spouse, a child under 21, or a blind or permanently and totally disabled child is living. A lien on the home is not enforced while a qualifying sibling with an equity interest, or a caregiving child who lived there continuously, still occupies it.
When someone dies
4-step process for Georgia Department of Community Health — State Medicaid Estate Recovery Program.
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medicaid.georgia.gov/programs/third-party-liability/medicaid-estate-recovery→Administering agency
Georgia Department of Community Health — State Medicaid Estate Recovery Program
Authority
Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 111-3-8 (Estate Recovery); O.C.G.A. 49-4-147.1