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Nebraska · LTC Insurance

# Nebraska Long-Term Care Insurance

Last updated 2026-10-20

Nebraska's Department of Insurance regulates long-term-care coverage through a dedicated rule, Title 210, Chapter 46, which states its purposes plainly: promoting the availability of LTC coverage, protecting applicants against unfair or deceptive sales and enrollment tactics, and helping consumers actually understand and compare the policies being offered to them.

This regulation isn't narrowly targeted — it covers LTC insurance policies and certificates delivered or issued for delivery anywhere in Nebraska, including qualified long-term-care contracts and life insurance policies that accelerate benefits to pay for long-term care. Per the rule, it applies broadly across insurers, fraternal benefit societies, prepaid health plans, health maintenance organizations, and similar entities operating in the state. Nebraska also maintains a Partnership framework for qualifying post-2006 policies, which provides a dollar-for-dollar Medicaid asset disregard tied to benefits the policy actually pays out.

## Does Nebraska have a Long-Term Care Partnership program?

**Yes.** Nebraska takes part in the Long-Term Care Partnership program created by the federal Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (DRA). DRA Partnership states follow consumer-protection standards drawn from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) Long-Term Care Insurance Model Act and Model Regulation. A Partnership-qualified policy gives you **dollar-for-dollar asset protection**: for every dollar the policy pays in benefits, Nebraska Medicaid can disregard a dollar of your assets when it decides eligibility, and the same amount is protected from estate recovery after death.

**How the protection works (illustrative):** if a Partnership policy pays $200,000 in benefits before you apply for Medicaid, Medicaid can disregard $200,000 of your assets on top of the state's regular asset limit, and that same amount is protected from Medicaid estate recovery later.

### What makes a policy Partnership-qualified

- It's a **tax-qualified** long-term care policy under Internal Revenue Code § 7702B.
- It meets the state's Partnership consumer-protection standards and is issued while you're a resident of a Partnership state (each state sets its own start date and residency rule).
- It carries the required **inflation protection** for your age when you buy: compound annual protection if you're under 61, some level of protection from 61 through 75, and optional protection at 76 or older.

### If you move to another state

Nebraska appears on the New York State Partnership for Long-Term Care's reciprocity map as a Partnership state that honors reciprocity. In general, a Partnership policy bought in another reciprocal state keeps its dollar-for-dollar protection here, and a Nebraska policy keeps it in other reciprocal states.

**The original four:** California, Connecticut, Indiana and New York started their Partnership programs before the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005. Their programs were designed separately from the NAIC-based DRA model, so their rules differ (for example, some offered Total Asset protection), and California doesn't take part in reciprocity. If you bought a policy in one of these states, confirm how it's treated with the Medicaid agency where you'll apply.

Not every insurer offers Partnership-qualified policies in every state. When you compare quotes, ask whether each policy is Partnership-qualified in Nebraska.

## Sources and official resources

- [Nebraska Department of Insurance: Long-Term Care](https://doi.nebraska.gov/consumer/long-term-care)
- [Nebraska DHHS: Medicaid and Long-Term Care](https://dhhs.ne.gov/pages/medicaid-and-long-term-care.aspx)
- [New York State Partnership for Long-Term Care: State Partnership Programs and Reciprocity map](https://nyspltc.health.ny.gov/reciprocitymap.htm)
- [U.S. Code: 42 U.S.C. § 1396p (liens, estate recovery, transfers of assets, Partnership disregard)](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/1396p)

Rules and figures change. Confirm current details with the agency before you act.

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