As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. "Medical assistance" means "medical assistance", "additional medical assistance", "discretionary medical assistance", or "medicare cost sharing" as each is defined in section 249A.2 which is provided to an individual pursuant to chapter 249A and Title XIX of the federal Social Security Act.
2. a. "Transfer of assets" means any transfer or assignment of a legal or equitable interest in property, as defined in section 702.14, from a transferor to a transferee for less than fair consideration, made while the transferor is receiving medical assistance or within five years prior to application for medical assistance by the transferor. Any such transfer or assignment is presumed to be made with the intent, on the part of the transferee, of enabling the transferor to obtain or maintain eligibility for medical assistance. This presumption is rebuttable only by clear and convincing evidence that the transferor's eligibility or potential eligibility for medical assistance was no part of the transferee's reason for accepting the transfer or assignment.
b. However, transfer of assets does not include the following:
(1) Transfers to or for the sole benefit of the transferor's spouse, including a transfer to a spouse by an institutionalized spouse pursuant to section 1924(f)(1) of the federal Social Security Act.
(2) Transfers, other than the transfer of a dwelling, to or for the sole benefit of the transferor's child who is blind or disabled as defined in section 1614 of the federal Social Security Act.
(3) Transfer of a dwelling to a child of the transferor under twenty-one years of age.
(4) Transfer of a dwelling, after the transferor is institutionalized, to either of the following:
(a) A sibling of the transferor who has an equity interest in the dwelling and who was residing in the dwelling for a period of at least one year immediately prior to the date the transferor became institutionalized.
(b) A child of the transferor who was residing in the dwelling for a period of at least two years immediately prior to the date the transferor became institutionalized and who provided care to the transferor which permitted the transferor to reside at the dwelling rather than in an institution or facility.
(5) Transfers of less than two thousand dollars. For purposes of this chapter, all transfers by the same transferor during a calendar year will be aggregated.
(6) Transfers of property that would, at the time of the transferor's application for medical assistance, have been exempt from consideration as a resource if it had been retained by the transferor, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1382b(a), as implemented by regulations adopted by the secretary of the United States department of health and human services, and pursuant to section 561.16 and chapter 627.
3. "Transferee" means the person who receives a transfer of assets.
4. "Transferor" means the person who makes a transfer of assets.
93 Acts, ch 106, §1
Referred to in § 249F.2
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