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

Public and private agencies offer a variety of home care services that may be available to you.

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

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

In the largest refugee operation in U.S. history, nursing homes were among the last facilities to be evacuated from ...

A new report concludes that the practice among the elderly of transferring assets in order to qualify for Medicaid c...

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.