Utah Medicaid Estate Recovery

Utah Medicaid's Office of Recovery Services, through its Bureau of Medical Collections, opens estate recovery once a recipient dies. The state can recover either from the recipient's own estate or from a trust in which the recipient served as both grantor and beneficiary — a scope reflected in the statute's own title, Estate and Trust Recovery, codified at Utah Code Section 26B-3-1013.

That's broader reach than a simple statement that only a probated house is at risk. Utah's public materials explicitly include the grantor-beneficiary trust category described above, and the statute goes further, voiding any trust term that tries to deny recovery for medical assistance from the moment the trust is created. None of this should be read as a blanket rule covering every non-probate title arrangement — a specific title history still needs individualized legal analysis.