WAC 182-527-2742 Estate recovery-Service-related limitations.
Effective June 23, 2024
For the purposes of this section, the term "agency" includes the agency's designee.
The agency's payment for the following services is subject to recovery:
- State-only funded services, except:
- Adult protective services;
- Offender reentry community safety program services;
- Supplemental security payments (SSP) authorized by the developmental disabilities administration (DDA);
- Volunteer chore services; and
- Guardianship and conservatorship assistance program services.
- For dates of service on or after January 1, 2014:
- Basic Plus waiver services;
- Community first choice (CFC) services;
- Community option program entry system (COPES) services;
- Community protection waiver services;
- Core waiver services;
- Hospice services;
- Intermediate care facility for individuals with intellectual disabilities services provided in either a private community setting or in a rural health clinic;
- Individual and family services;
- Medicaid personal care services;
- New Freedom consumer directed services;
- Nursing facility services;
- Personal care services funded under Title XIX or XXI;
- Private duty nursing administered by aging and long-term support administration (ALTSA) or the DDA;
- Residential habilitation center services;
- Residential support waiver services;
- Roads to community living demonstration project services;
- The portion of the managed care premium used to pay for ALTSA-authorized long-term care services under the program of all-inclusive care for the elderly (PACE); and
- The hospital and prescription drug services provided to a client while the client was receiving services listed in this subsection.
- For dates of service beginning January 1, 2010, through December 31, 2013:
- Medicaid services;
- Premium payments to managed care organizations (MCOs); and
- The client's proportional share of the state's monthly contribution to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to defray the costs for outpatient prescription drug coverage provided to a person who is eligible for medicare Part D and medicaid.
- For dates of service beginning June 1, 2004, through December 31, 2009:
- Medicaid services;
- Medicare premiums for individuals also receiving medicaid;
- Medicare savings programs (MSPs) services for people also receiving medicaid; and
- Premium payments to MCOs.
- For dates of service beginning July 1, 1995, through May 31, 2004:
- Adult day health services;
- Home and community-based services;
- Medicaid personal care services;
- Nursing facility services;
- Private duty nursing services; and
- The hospital and prescription drug services provided to a client while the client was receiving services listed in this subsection.
- For dates of service beginning July 1, 1994, through June 30, 1995:
- Home and community-based services;
- Nursing facility services; and
- Hospital and prescription drug services provided to a client while the client was receiving services listed in this subsection.
- For dates of service beginning July 26, 1987, through June 30, 1994: Medicaid services.
- For dates of service through December 31, 2009. If a client was eligible for the MSP, but not otherwise medicaid eligible, the client's estate is liable only for any sum paid to cover medicare premiums and cost-sharing benefits.
- For dates of service beginning January 1, 2010. If a client was eligible for medicaid and the MSP, the client's estate is not liable for any sum paid to cover medical assistance cost-sharing benefits.
- For dates of service beginning July 1, 2017, long-term services and supports authorized under the medicaid transformation project are exempt from estate recovery. Exempted services include those provided under:
- Medicaid alternative care under WAC 182-513-1600;
- Tailored supports for older adults under WAC 182-513-1610;
- Supportive housing under WAC 388-106-1700 through 388-106-1765; or
- Supported employment under WAC 388-106-1800 through 388-106-1865.