Families of Medicaid beneficiaries would no longer lose assets to pay for care.
This bill would stop states from taking assets, like homes, from the estates of deceased Medicaid beneficiaries to pay back healthcare costs. It would also prevent states from placing new liens on property and require them to remove existing ones. This means families would keep more of their loved one's property.
Today, states are required to have programs to recover Medicaid costs from a deceased person's estate and can place liens on property. After this bill, states would be prohibited from these recovery efforts and from placing new liens. They would also have to remove existing liens within 90 days of the bill becoming law.
HR 6951 · 119th Congress · January 6, 2026 · AI Summary by gemini-2.5-flash · 9/10
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