Fran Ruhl's family received a startling letter four weeks after she died in January 2022. Iowa's Medicaid program had spent $226,611.35 for Ruhl's health care, and the government was entitled to recoup that money from her estate.
Jen Coghlan outside the home where she grew up in Perry, Iowa.
Her father, Henry Ruhl, plans to leave the house to her, but Coghlan expects she'll have to sell it after he dies to settle a $226,611 from Medicaid for the care of her mother, who died in 2022. Coghlan says the family didn't realize that her mother was on Medicaid.
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