Claims - Due to lack of notice of estate administration, Medi-Cal reimbursement claim was not time-barred.

A personal representative's failure to give timely notice to the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) of an estate administration prevented the running of the four-month limitations period for DHCS to present a claim for reimbursement of Medi-Cal benefits provided to the decedent. The Court of Appeal explained that the specific notice and limitations statutes for creditor's claims by public entities controlled over the provisions governing creditors' claims in general. Under the statutes governing public entity claims, the only limitations period that applied in the absence of notice to DHCS was the general three-year statute of limitations. Shewry v. Wooten, (Cal.App. 1 Dist.)