Medicaid Rules

Medicaid has strict asset rules that compel many applicants to "spend down" their assets before they can qualify for coverage. It is important to know what you can spend your money on without endangering Medicaid eligibility.

Elderlaw 101

You may have heard that transferring assets, or helping someone to transfer assets, to achieve Medicaid eligibility is a crime. Is this true? ...

Elderlaw 101

Congress has established a period of ineligibility for Medicaid for those who transfer assets. For transfers made prior to February 8, 2006, state Medicaid officials would look only at transfers made within the 36 months prior . . . ...

Elderlaw 101

There are circumstances in which transferring a house will not result in a Medicaid penalty period, and one of those is if the Medicaid applicant transfers the house to a "caretaker child."  ...

Elderlaw 101

Many Americans believe insurance will cover their nursing home needs, according to a new study from the Kaiser Fami...

Two ElderLawAnswers member attorneys have produced a remarkably lucid description of the various ways to qualify for Medicaid coverage of long-term care while protecting the maximum of assets.

A nursing home in Altoona, Iowa, is restricting a husband's visits to his wife, who is a resident at the facility, a...

The New York Times Magazine ethics column ("The Ethicist") recently featured a question from a man who had in...