Bill > S678

This bill, known as the "Leveraging Integrity and Verification of Eligibility for Beneficiaries Act" or the "LIVE Beneficiaries Act", requires states to implement quarterly screenings of Medicaid enrollees using the Death Master File (a comprehensive database of deceased individuals) starting January 1, 2027, to ensure that deceased individuals are promptly removed from medical assistance programs. If a state identifies an individual as deceased through this screening, they must disenroll that person from the state's Medicaid plan, stop making future payments for medical assistance (except for services already provided before death), and treat the death information as factual. The bill also includes a safeguard provision that if an individual is mistakenly identified as deceased and disenrolled, the state must immediately reinstate their coverage retroactively to the date of disenrollment. Additionally, the bill does not prevent states from using other electronic data sources to identify potentially deceased beneficiaries, as long as they comply with the bill's requirements and other Medicaid eligibility determination regulations. This legislation aims to reduce improper Medicaid payments and maintain the integrity of the medical assistance program by ensuring that benefits are only provided to living, eligible individuals.

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https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/678/all-info