Medicaid Estate Recovery in Missouri

Medicaid Estate Recovery in Missouri: key facts

Who is subject

Estates of MO HealthNet participants. The state does not seek repayment for benefits received before the participant was age 55, and a TEFRA lien may be placed on the home of a participant age 55 or older in long-term nursing facility care.

Recovery scope

The cost of MO HealthNet benefits, recovered from estate assets such as homes, savings, and retirement accounts, plus remaining personal-funds and surplus burial-plan balances at the facility.

Recovery deferred

MO HealthNet will not pursue estate recovery while there is a surviving spouse, a surviving child under age 21, or a surviving child of any age who is blind or disabled.

Release before closing

An estate may not be closed for a deceased MO HealthNet participant until the MO HealthNet Division issues a release of its estate recovery claim (Mo. Rev. Stat. 473.398).

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