Michigan Senate Approves Medicaid Estate Recovery Bill, Governor
The Michigan Senate on legislation Thursday that would require the state Department of Community Health, programs to reduce Medicaid costs for people living in nursing homes or receiving reports-care home before his death, the Detroit News, has paid scoop. developing Governor Jennifer Granholm of Michigan (D) would sign the bill. BRBRThe is the latest state of the nation of an estate recovery program required by federal law to pass. Ministry of Community Health Director Janet Olszewski, in a letter to state senators earlier this month, wrote that the state losing $ 5000000000 - or more than 50% of the states $ 8.6000000000 Medicaid budget - in federal Medicaid payments if the state does not meet the requirements to be here Sept. 30. BRBRUnder the bill, residents of nursing homes
that receive Medicaid are currently exempt from real estate recovery efforts. Exceptions include apartments by spouses, minor children or people with disabilities are employed. People would also be in a position for an emergency exemption under News. In addition, the measure requires the consideration of options for a voluntary conservation program that will allow residents to make payments to avoid estate recovery.Medicaid Director Paul Reinhart BRBRState said that while the number of seniors who rely on Medicaid for their money in the long-term care pay a small portion of the 1.6 million recipients of Medicaid States, their care is for 25% of the Medicaid budget. Reinhart added that the number of Medicaid recipients under estate recovery increase from 40 500 in 2010 to 61,000
in 2030 (Kozlowski, Detroit News, 28.09).Reprinted with permission from Kaisernetwork. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Report on health policy, search the archives, or sign up for email delivery at Kaisernetwork / DailyReports / healthpolicy. The report Kaiser Daily Health Policy is published for Kaisernetwork, a free service of the J. Henry Kaiser Family Foundation 2005 Advisory Board Company and Kaiser Family
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