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Medicaid Planning · Delaware

Delaware Medicaid look-back rules

Medicaid look-back rules rules for Delaware.

Published: September 4, 2026. Last checked: September 5, 2026.

Look-back period

60 months

Source: Delaware Administrative Code, transfer-of-assets provisions [state-legislature] — Transfer look-back provisions effective April 1, 2007

Transfer-penalty divisor

$439.84 per day; $13,378.33 monthly reference

Source: Delaware DHSS Administrative Notice A-15-2025 [state-medicaid-agency] — Dated November 25, 2025; effective January 1, 2026 for applications filed on or after that date

How the state administers the rule

For transfers on or after February 8, 2006, Delaware measures the 60 months before the baseline date of institutionalization and application. The penalty begins on the later of the transfer month or the date the person otherwise qualifies for institutional-level services; overlapping transfers are aggregated and fractional periods are retained.

Source: Delaware Administrative Code, transfer-of-assets provisions [state-legislature] — Transfer look-back provisions effective April 1, 2007

Sources

Methodology & sources

Checked at least annually and whenever the state publishes a new transfer-penalty divisor or administration rule.

General information, not legal advice.