Medicaid is required to seek reimbursement from the estates of people that were enrolled in the program while they were living. Since it is a need-based program, you cannot qualify if you have more than $2000 in countable assets.
Eraka Childs received her B.A. in Business in 1994 from Southwestern University and her J.D. in 1997 from South Texas College of Law. She was admitted to practice law in Texas in 1997. She also was admitted to practice in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the Southern and Eastern Districts of Texas.
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