37.2.710    THIRD PARTY RESOURCES

(1) Applicable medicare, medicaid, or personal insurance or similar health care benefits shall be considered as a resource of the resident.

(2) Upon verification of the receipt of third party payments made directly to a resident or financially responsible person, the department may enforce the automatic assignment of rights provided in 53-1-414 , MCA.

History: Sec. 53-1-403 and 53-1-405, MCA; IMP, Sec. 53-1-405 and 53-1-414, MCA; NEW, 1983 MAR p. 302, Eff. 4/15/83; AMD, 1984 MAR p. 1367, Eff. 9/14/84; TRANS & AMD, from DOC, 1999 MAR p. 1300, Eff. 6/18/99.