Medicaid Rules

Disagreements with a nursing home can arise regarding any number of topics, including the quality of food, troubleso...

Nursing homes are notoriously understaffed. Studies have shown that more staff leads to better care, but employees a...

Most nursing home residents on Medicaid are likely not being enrolled in the Medicare Part D prescription drug plan ...

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Although their names are confusingly alike, Medicaid and Medicare are quite different programs.

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

A fear that the government will seize their house after they die is causing some people to not sign up for expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act.

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?...

The "community spouse resource allowance" or CSRA assures that the spouses of Medicaid applicants will be able to keep at least some of the couple's assets.  ...