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Feds Approve Vermont Program Giving Medicaid Recipients Alternatives to Nursing Home Care
If they possibly can, most people who require long-term care would prefer to receive services in their own homes ins...
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AARP Prepares to Fight Medicaid Cuts
When House and Senate budget conferees sit down to try to strike a compromise between budget bills that sharply diff...
Read moreGovernors Issue Tentative Proposals for Changing Medicaid
A task force of eleven governors has released a set of proposed changes to the Medicaid program, the latest stage in...
Read moreDemocrats Refuse Participation in Medicaid Study Commission
Democratic lawmakers have announced that they will not be part of the study commission that will recommend ways to t...
Read moreReport Explodes Myth That Medicaid Transfers Are a Problem
A new report concludes that the practice among the elderly of transferring assets in order to qualify for Medicaid c...
Read moreConn. Cancels Request to Curtail Medicaid Asset Transfers
Connecticut governor M. Jodi Rell has withdrawn the state's application for a federal waiver to impose more strin...
Read moreMedicaid Official's Misinformation Does Not Stop Estate Recovery
A Medicaid eligibility worker in the state of Wyoming incorrectly advised a Medicaid applicant that the applicant...
Read moreCongress Votes to Cut Medicaid by $10 Billion Starting in 2007
The Medicaid program is to be cut by $10 billion in the four-year period beginning in 2007 under the 2006 budget res...
Read moreSurvey Results: Most Say Medicaid Planning Is Ethical
Last month we asked site visitors and readers of the April issue of ElderLaw News the following question: ...
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