Utah Code 26B-3-1014. Recovery from recipient of incorrectly provided medical assistance
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The department may:
(1) recover medical assistance incorrectly provided, whether due to administrative or factual error or fraud, from the recipient or the recipient’s recovery estate; and
Terms Used In Utah Code 26B-3-1014
- Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
- Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
- Medical assistance: means :(8)(a) all funds expended for the benefit of a recipient under this chapter or Titles XVIII and XIX, federal Social Security Act; and(8)(b) any other services provided for the benefit of a recipient by a prepaid health care delivery system under contract with the department. See Utah Code 26B-3-1001
- Recipient: means :
(11)(a) an individual who has applied for or received medical assistance from the state;(11)(b) the guardian, conservator, or other personal representative of an individual under Subsection (11)(a) if the individual is a minor or an incapacitated person; or(11)(c) the estate and survivors of an individual under Subsection (11)(a), if the individual is deceased. See Utah Code 26B-3-1001- Recovery estate: means , regarding a deceased recipient:
(12)(a) all real and personal property or other assets included within a decedent's estate as defined in Section 75-1-201;(12)(b) the decedent's augmented estate as defined in Section 75-2-203; and(12)(c) that part of other real or personal property in which the decedent had a legal interest at the time of death including assets conveyed to a survivor, heir, or assign of the decedent through joint tenancy, tenancy in common, survivorship, life estate, living trust, or other arrangement. See Utah Code 26B-3-1001(2) pursuant to a judgment, impose a lien against real property of the recipient. - Recipient: means :