Split Panel Affirms Order Requiring Trust Payment For Beneficiary’s Medicaid Debt

( December 9, 2022, 9:25 AM EST) -- DES MOINES, Iowa — A split Iowa appellate court affirmed a lower court order requiring a trust to reimburse the Iowa Department of Human Services (DHS) for Medicaid funds used for the care of a now-deceased trust beneficiary, finding that because the beneficiary “had an interest in the corpus of the trust” that continued to the time of her death, DHS obtained her interest in the trust and recovery rights for her expenses after she died....

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