RSA 126-A:42 Recovery of Expenses.

I. Subject to the provisions of RSA 126-A:43, II, the state is entitled to recover the expense of care, treatment, and maintenance of any patient or resident at any of the institutions named in RSA 126-A:34 or at a public or private institution or otherwise at the direction of the commissioner from the patient or resident, if of sufficient ability to pay, or the person's estate, or from persons legally chargeable with such person's support as defined in RSA 126-A:36 or from the estates provided in RSA 126-A:37.
I-a. The department shall file with the register of deeds of the county in which the patient or resident or the spouse of the patient or resident, if any, owns real property, notice of the lien for reimbursement of expenses, as provided in RSA 126-A:37, after providing