Medicaid Planning

The final budget deal Congress passed to avert the “fiscal cliff” repeals a long-term care insurance program that would have helped keep the elderly and disabled out of nursing homes and off the Medicaid rolls.  In its place, the budget...

While Medicare gets most of the news coverage, Medicaid still remains a bit of mystery to many people.

Promissory notes can be a valuable tool in Medicaid planning, as illustrated by a recent federal district court case.

For many Medicaid applicants, individual retirement accounts (IRAs) are one of their biggest assets.

Whether you should prepare and file a Medicaid application by yourself or should hire help depends on answers to the following questions:...

In order to qualify for Medicaid, you can't have more than $2,000 in assets (in most states). Many people forget about life insurance when calculating their assets, but depending on the type of life insurance and the value of the...

When one spouse qualifies for Medicaid to pay for a nursing home stay, the spouse who is at home is often left without many resources.

A federal court has ruled that banks can’t foreclose on surviving spouses of reverse mortgage holders when the spouses can’t pay off the mortgage. ...

When one member of a couple moves to a nursing home, we expect that spouse will be the first to die, but this isn’t always the case. What happens if a Medicaid recipient's spouse dies first?...