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After a Medicaid recipient dies, Nebraska DHHS recovers medical assistance paid on the recipient's behalf from the estate. Recovery applies to recipients who were 55 or older when the assistance was provided, and is deferred while a surviving spouse or certain protected children are living.
Administering agency
Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services — Medicaid Estate Recovery
Authority
Neb. Rev. Stat. 68-919
Under Neb. Rev. Stat. 68-919, Nebraska recovers medical assistance from the estates of recipients who were 55 or older when the assistance was provided, and from recipients who were institutionalized.
Recovery is deferred while a surviving spouse is living, and while there is a surviving child who is under 21 or who is blind or totally and permanently disabled under the Supplemental Security Income criteria.
When someone dies
4-step process for Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services — Medicaid Estate Recovery.
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Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services — Medicaid Estate Recovery
Authority
Neb. Rev. Stat. 68-919