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Home→Agencies→Medicaid Estate Recovery→Minnesota

Medicaid Estate Recovery in Minnesota

Minnesota Medicaid is called Medical Assistance (MA). The Department of Human Services recovers the cost of MA-paid long-term care — nursing facility services, home and community-based services, and related hospital and prescription drug services — received by a person age 55 or older, and from younger recipients who were permanently institutionalized.

OverviewWhen someone dies

Medicaid Recovery

Minnesota

mn.gov/dhs/people-we-serve/adults/health-care/health-care-programs/programs-and-services/estate-recovery.jsp→

Administering agency

Minnesota Department of Human Services — Medical Assistance Estate Recovery

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Authority

Minn. Stat. 256B.15

Verified May 2026

Medicaid Estate Recovery in Minnesota: key facts

Recovery scope
MA-paid nursing facility services, home and community-based services, and related hospital and prescription drug services received at age 55 or older (Minn. Stat. 256B.15, subd. 2).
Who is subject
Recipients age 55 or older when the covered services were received; younger recipients who resided in a medical institution for six months or longer with no medically reasonable likelihood of discharge.
Expanded estate
Recovery reaches beyond the probate estate to a recipient's interest in real property held as a life tenant or joint tenant with right of survivorship, plus joint accounts, pay-on-death accounts, and transfer-on-death and living-trust interests (Minn. Stat. 256B.15, subd. 1a).
Recovery deferred
No recovery while a surviving spouse is living, or while there is a surviving child under age 21 or a blind or permanently and totally disabled child of any age (Minn. Stat. 256B.15, subd. 3).

Frequently asked questions

Minnesota recovers MA-paid nursing facility services, home and community-based services, and related hospital and prescription drug services received at age 55 or older, and MA paid for younger recipients who were permanently institutionalized. It is focused on long-term care and related services rather than all medical assistance.

Recovery is deferred while a surviving spouse is living, and while there is a surviving child under age 21 or a blind or permanently and totally disabled child of any age, under Minn. Stat. 256B.15, subd. 3. An undue-hardship waiver may also apply.

When someone dies

Steps after a death in Minnesota

5-step process for Minnesota Department of Human Services — Medical Assistance Estate Recovery.

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Medicaid Recovery

Minnesota

mn.gov/dhs/people-we-serve/adults/health-care/health-care-programs/programs-and-services/estate-recovery.jsp→

Administering agency

Minnesota Department of Human Services — Medical Assistance Estate Recovery

WebsiteVisit website →

Authority

Minn. Stat. 256B.15

Verified May 2026