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Supplemental Security Income Overpayments to Medicaid Nursing Home Residents Can Be Reduced

HRD-77-131 Published: Aug 23, 1977. Publicly Released: Aug 23, 1977.
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When recipients of Supplemental Security Income (SSI) enter nursing homes, their payments should be reduced because Medicaid pays the cost of nursing home care.

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