Indiana Code Title 12. Human Services § 12-14-17-2

(1) A recipient who is receiving supplemental assistance.

(2) An individual who had a disability, was aged, or was blind who, at the time of death, was certified as eligible to receive medical assistance under Medicaid.

(1) The estate of the deceased is insufficient to pay the funeral director's expenses.

(2) The individual legally responsible for the burial of the deceased is unable to pay the funeral director's expenses.

(1) shall pay one thousand two hundred dollars ($1,200) for expenses that the funeral director has incurred;  and

(2) may recover the amount paid by the division under this section as a preferred claim from the estate of the deceased.