Iowa Code § 226.45

If a patient is not receiving medical assistance under chapter 249A and the amount to the account of any patient in the patients’ personal deposit fund exceeds two hundred dollars, the business manager of the hospital may apply any of the excess to reimburse the county of legal settlement or the state in a case where no legal settlement exists for liability incurred by the county or the state for the payment of care, support and maintenance of the patient, when billed by the county of legal settlement or by the administrator for a patient having no legal settlement.

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