States try to seize Medicaid patients’ homes after they die to recoup healthcare costs
LA TimesThe state of Tennessee is trying to claim the Knoxville home of Imani Mfalme’s late mother to pay for the care the Alzheimer’s patient received under Medicaid before she died. Last month, a foundation for one of the industry’s health insurance giants called on Massachusetts to overhaul its process, which includes collecting reimbursement for most Medicaid costs, beyond the federal government’s minimum requirement to recover long-term care expenses. Now, Tennessee’s Medicaid office says she owes $225,000 and the state is seeking a court order that would require Mfalme to sell the house to pay up. “This is a program that doesn’t work for anybody.” In a gridlocked Congress, where some Republicans are clamoring to trim Medicaid entitlements, the bill is unlikely to garner the bipartisan support needed to become law.
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