Estate Recovery for Medical Services Paid for by the State

 What is estate recovery?

What is an estate?

Which medical services are subject to estate recovery laws?

Are Adult Protective Services subject to estate recovery?

Are there times when estate recovery does not take effect even after the recipient?s death?

Can estate recovery ever be waived?

Can anything be done to avoid estate recovery?

What happens to funds held by a nursing home?

How should the State be advised that a recipient has died and that there is an estate?

Information regarding estate recovery (the State's ability to collect money to repay medical services after a patients death).