Many people aren’t aware that when they sign up for Medicaid for their elderly parents, the government could end up seizing the family home to recoup their expenses after the person dies.
The Associated Press recently reported:
As Salvatore LoGrande fought cancer and all the pain that came with it, his daughters promised to keep him in the white, pitched roof house he worked so hard to buy all those decades ago.
So, Sandy LoGrande thought it was a mistake when, a year after her father’s death, Massachusetts billed her $177,000 for her father’s Medicaid expenses and threatened to sue for his home if she didn’t pay up quickly.
“The home was everything,” to her father said LoGrande, 57.
But the bill and accompanying threat weren’t a mistake.
Rather, it was part of a routine process the federal government requires of every state: to recover money from the assets of dead people who, in their final years, relied on Medicaid, the taxpayer-funded health insurance for the poorest Americans.
The report explains that normally, a person’s home is exempt from the Medicaid qualification process.
However, for those over 55 who used Medicaid to pay for long-term care such as nursing home stays or in-home health care, the home can be included in the estate recovery process.
Many families are saying they were never notified of the rules when they signed up for medicaid for their elderly parents, and are left shocked and outraged to learn that even the family home may be seized.
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— The Associated Press (@AP) March 18, 2024
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