LIVE Beneficiaries Act

Key Points

• Starting in 2027, states would be required to check a national list of deaths every three months. They will use this list to see if anyone currently signed up for Medicaid has passed away.
• If the records show a person has died, the state must stop making Medicaid payments for them and remove them from the program. This ensures that government health care money is only being used for people who are still alive.
• To protect people from mistakes, the bill requires states to fix errors quickly. If a living person is accidentally marked as deceased and loses their coverage, the state must put them back on the program immediately and cover them for the time they were missing.
• This rule would apply to all 50 states and Washington, D.C. While states can still use their own local methods to find out when someone dies, they would now be required to use the national database as a backup at least four times a year.

Impact Analysis

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