Medicaid Rules

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released the 2014 federal guidelines for how much money the spouses of institutionalized Medicaid recipients may keep and the limit on how much a home can be worth for its owner...

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.  ...

What if most of a couple's income is in the name of the institutionalized spouse and the income of the spouse living in the community is not enough to live on?  Medicaid has created some protections.

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...

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

A million low-income seniors have become eligible for a big assist on prescription drug expenses this year . . .

The attorneys general of 30 states have sent a letter to CMS asking it to suspend and revise its rating system for nursing homes. . .

When it comes to long-term care, which type of care is cheaper? A common misperception is that receiving care at hom...