Bill Text: HI SB2453 | 2014 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Medical Assistance; Medicaid; Estate Recovery of Assets; Long-Term Care Costs
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-21 - Referred to HMS, WAM. [SB2453 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2014-SB2453-Introduced.html
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THE SENATE |
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TWENTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE, 2014 |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to medical assistance.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 346-37, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:
"(a) If a recipient under this chapter dies leaving an estate and does not have a surviving spouse, child, father, mother, grandfather, grandmother, grandchild, stepfather, stepmother, or any designated heir, the department shall have a valid claim against the estate for the amount of social services overpayments, financial assistance overpayments, or burial payments granted.
The department shall file a claim against the
estate of a deceased recipient of medical assistance for the amount of medical
assistance granted[,] only if [the recipient was age fifty-five or
over when such medical assistance was received and there is no surviving
spouse, or surviving child who is under twenty-one years of age, or blind, or
disabled. The department shall file a claim against the estate of a recipient
of medical assistance who was]:
(1) The amount of the claim is entirely for
long-term care services, including those services received as an inpatient
in a nursing facility, intermediate care facility for individuals with
intellectual disabilities, or other medical institution [only if there];
and
(2) There is no surviving spouse or surviving child who is under twenty-one years of age, or blind, or disabled."
SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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Report Title:
Medical Assistance; Medicaid; Estate Recovery of Assets; Long-Term Care Costs
Description:
Limits DHS claims for the recovery of medical assistance payments from the estates of deceased recipients to payments made for long-term care services.
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