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Nebraska · Estate Recovery

# Nebraska Medicaid Estate Recovery

Last updated 2026-10-20

Nebraska law creates a debt owed to DHHS by a Medicaid recipient for covered long-term-care assistance if that person was 55 or older when the assistance was provided, or if they were institutionalized and determined unlikely to be discharged home again. That debt sits dormant until the recipient's death, at which point the state's survivor protections come into play before any actual recovery happens.

What sets Nebraska's law apart is how expansively it defines the recoverable estate. Beyond the conventional probate assets — real property, personal property, and other holdings the recipient had legal title to or an interest in at or near death — the statute goes further and specifically names several non-probate arrangements as fair game, including TOD-deed property, joint tenancy interests, life estates with a retained interest, living trusts, and insurance, annuity, and retirement-account beneficiary designations.

## Sources and official resources

- [Nebraska DHHS: Medicaid and Long-Term Care](https://dhhs.ne.gov/pages/medicaid-and-long-term-care.aspx)
- [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)

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