405 IAC 2-4-1 - Payment of burial expenses
Authority: IC 12-15-1-10; IC 12-15-1-15; IC 12-15-21-2
Affected: IC 12-13-7-3; IC 12-14; IC 12-15
Sec. 1.
(a) For the
purpose of implementing the provisions of IC 12-14, a member of Medicaid for
the aged, blind, and disabled is that person who is receiving Medicaid as of
the date of his or her death, or who applied for Medicaid prior to the date of
his or her death and was subsequently determined eligible.
(b) The state department shall pay for the
cost of the deceased member's burial expenses subject to the following
limitations:
(1) Payment will be made only to
the funeral director or cemetery representative upon submission of a completed
claim form prescribed by the state department.
(2) Payment shall not be made to a funeral
director who submits a claim for cemetery expenses unless he or she attaches
proof to the claim that he or she is the cemetery representative or has been
designated the cemetery representative.
(3) In determining the amount to be paid by
the state department to the funeral director, contributions paid and payments
made or available from the estate of the deceased member in excess of the
exclusion provided by IC 12-14 shall be subtracted from the statutory maximum.
The balance of the unpaid expenses, up to the statutory maximum, shall be paid
by the state department.
(4) In
determining the amount to be paid by the state department to the cemetery
representative, contributions paid and payments made or available from the
estate of the deceased member in excess of the statutory exclusion shall be
subtracted from the statutory maximum. The balance of the unpaid expenses, up
to the statutory maximum, shall be paid by the state department.
Notes
Transferred from the Division of Family and Children ( 470
IAC 9.1-4-1 ) to the Office of the Secretary of Family and Social Services (
405 IAC 2-4-1 ) by P.L. 9-1991,
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