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title: "Utah Medicaid Look-Back Period | Funding LTC Marketplace"
url: https://fundingltcmarketplace.com/states/utah/medicaid-look-back-period/
description: "Utah reviews 60 months of transfers for institutional or HCBS waiver coverage, but the current divisor must be confirmed from policy."
last_updated: 2026-10-20
author: George A. Mellendorf, CLTC, LTCP (Central States Insurance Services, Inc.)
publisher: Funding LTC Marketplace
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Utah · Look-Back & Penalties

# Utah Medicaid Look-Back Period

Last updated 2026-10-20

Utah only applies a transfer penalty when someone is seeking Medicaid coverage for institutional care or Home and Community-Based Waiver services. Under the state's Transfer of Assets policy, the look-back period runs 60 months back from the application date, and a penalty applies if the individual or their spouse transferred assets during that window under the policy's terms.

Utah's statewide resource rule defines the resulting penalty period as a stretch of time during which the person is ineligible for institutional-care or HCBS-waiver services because of an under-market transfer. That framing matters: this is strictly about Medicaid payment for those specific long-term-care services, not a separate tax penalty — which makes the actual value received and the exact timing of the transaction the two facts that decide the outcome.

## Utah figures

- Transfer look-back review: 60 months

## Sources and official resources

- [Utah Medicaid: Long-Term Care and Waiver Programs](https://medicaid.utah.gov/medicaid-long-term-care-and-waiver-programs/)
- [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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