Medicaid Rules

Medicaid law provides special protections for the spouses of Medicaid applicants to make sure the spouses have the minimum support needed to continue to live in the community.

Elderlaw 101

Medicaid (called "Medi-Cal" in California, "MassHealth" in Massachusetts, and "TennCare" in Tennessee) is a joint federal-state program that provides health insurance coverage to low-income children, seniors, and people with disabilities.

Elderlaw 101

Under Medicaid law, following the death of the Medicaid recipient a state must attempt to recover from his or her estate whatever benefits it paid for the recipient's care.

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

A Medicaid eligibility worker in the state of Wyoming incorrectly advised a Medicaid applicant that the applicant&#3...

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...

A new study by the National Council on the Aging (NCOA) contends tha...

An ElderLawAnswers member attorney has written the book on Pennsylavania's rules for obtaining Medicaid coverage of nursing home care.