When States Recoup Medicaid Costs by Seizing Family Homes, Poor Families Suffer While State Budgets Are Barely Affected – Justice in Aging
Asking the wrong question inevitably produces the wrong answer. Consider the recent federal report: “Kansas’s Medicaid Estate Recovery Program Was Cost Effective, but Kansas Did Not Always Follow its Procedures, Which Could Have Resulted in Reduced Recoveries.”[1] The HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) made two principal findings. The Kansas …



